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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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.

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.