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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 - KinshasaGreeceMauritania
51,18110,6182,437
52,78210,6622,501
54,45310,7182,566
56,17010,7572,632
57,86010,7832,699
59,59910,8092,768
61,47410,8412,838
63,47910,8742,909
65,59010,9012,981
67,80010,9303,055
70,11410,9593,129
72,55010,9733,205
75,13810,9573,282
77,79210,8983,359
80,53410,8193,438
83,36810,7473,517
86,22910,6773,597
89,19310,6333,677
92,20910,6123,759
95,23210,5903,840
98,32010,5793,942
101,49910,5564,045
104,76710,4994,150
108,17110,4374,259

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, Mauritania; the database as a whole is cited above.