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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Congo - KinshasaGreeceCentral African Republic
51,18110,6183,889
52,78210,6623,980
54,45310,7184,054
56,17010,7574,128
57,86010,7834,215
59,59910,8094,289
61,47410,8414,363
63,47910,8744,449
65,59010,9014,544
67,80010,9304,641
70,11410,9594,742
72,55010,9734,845
75,13810,9574,950
77,79210,8985,057
80,53410,8195,167
83,36810,7475,278
86,22910,6775,392
89,19310,6335,507
92,20910,6125,625
95,23210,5905,745
98,32010,5795,874
101,49910,5566,025
104,76710,4996,154
108,17110,4376,291

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

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, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.