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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Greece	Uganda
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	10,618	23,408
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	10,662	24,195
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	10,718	24,992
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	10,757	25,846
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	10,783	26,661
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	10,809	27,414
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	10,841	28,200
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	10,874	29,021
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	10,901	29,846
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	10,930	30,647
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	10,959	31,469
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	10,973	32,343
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	10,957	33,257
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	10,898	34,234
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	10,819	35,271
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	10,747	36,419
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	10,677	37,673
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	10,633	39,157
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	10,612	40,879
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	10,590	42,329
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	10,579	43,639
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	10,556	45,120
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	10,499	46,645
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	10,437	48,065

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

Uganda

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.

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