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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Switzerland	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	7,258	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	7,296	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	7,332	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	7,384	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	7,438	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	7,488	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	7,532	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	7,579	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	7,647	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	7,738	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	7,825	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	7,884	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	7,959	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	8,044	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	8,137	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	8,237	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	8,332	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	8,423	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	8,502	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	8,565	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	8,626	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	8,689	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	8,756	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	8,834	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

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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 Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.