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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Brazzaville	Oman	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	2,886	2,348	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	2,999	2,403	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	3,113	2,457	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	3,181	2,510	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	3,274	2,562	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	3,400	2,613	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	3,543	2,663	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	3,702	2,713	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	3,859	2,764	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	3,989	2,816	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	4,146	2,871	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	4,324	2,928	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	4,468	2,986	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	4,581	3,047	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	4,667	3,110	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	4,757	3,174	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	4,851	3,240	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	4,951	3,307	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	5,055	3,375	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	5,164	3,444	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	5,279	3,512	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	5,400	3,582	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	5,527	3,651	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	5,655	3,696	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

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 - Brazzaville, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.