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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Africa	Romania	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	46,257	22,414	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	46,958	22,262	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	47,820	22,106	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	48,480	21,931	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	48,951	21,828	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	49,478	21,704	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	50,054	21,571	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	50,667	21,443	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	51,339	21,129	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	52,077	20,779	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	52,862	20,607	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	53,682	20,485	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	54,518	20,385	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	55,356	20,296	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	56,215	20,224	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	57,075	20,151	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	57,947	20,055	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	58,830	19,938	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	59,715	19,823	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	60,595	19,713	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	61,469	19,622	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	62,355	19,496	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	62,900	19,351	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	63,382	19,266	10,437

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

Greece

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995