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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Greece	South Africa
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	10,618	46,257
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	10,662	46,958
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	10,718	47,820
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	10,757	48,480
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	10,783	48,951
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	10,809	49,478
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	10,841	50,054
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	10,874	50,667
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	10,901	51,339
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	10,930	52,077
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	10,959	52,862
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	10,973	53,682
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	10,957	54,518
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	10,898	55,356
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	10,819	56,215
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	10,747	57,075
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	10,677	57,947
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	10,633	58,830
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	10,612	59,715
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	10,590	60,595
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	10,579	61,469
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	10,556	62,355
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	10,499	62,900
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	10,437	63,382

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

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