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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Greece	Lesotho
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	10,618	1,908
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	10,662	1,916
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	10,718	1,922
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	10,757	1,926
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	10,783	1,926
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	10,809	1,925
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	10,841	1,922
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	10,874	1,919
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	10,901	1,917
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	10,930	1,915
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	10,959	1,916
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	10,973	1,920
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	10,957	1,925
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	10,898	1,930
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	10,819	1,936
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	10,747	1,942
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	10,677	1,948
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	10,633	1,953
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	10,612	1,958
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	10,590	1,962
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	10,579	1,987
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	10,556	2,013
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	10,499	2,037
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	10,437	2,059

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

Zambia

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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

No separate list is published for Lesotho; the database as a whole is cited above.