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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Greece	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	10,618	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	10,662	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	10,718	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	10,757	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	10,783	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	10,809	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	10,841	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	10,874	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	10,901	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	10,930	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	10,959	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	10,973	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	10,957	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	10,898	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	10,819	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	10,747	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	10,677	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	10,633	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	10,612	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	10,590	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	10,579	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	10,556	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	10,499	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	10,437	124,762

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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.