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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Chile	Greece	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	15,140	10,618	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	15,340	10,662	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	15,513	10,718	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	15,686	10,757	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	15,859	10,783	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	16,029	10,809	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	16,222	10,841	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	16,364	10,874	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	16,536	10,901	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	16,700	10,930	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	16,864	10,959	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	16,999	10,973	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	17,189	10,957	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	17,378	10,898	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	17,545	10,819	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	17,720	10,747	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	17,904	10,677	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	18,099	10,633	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	18,350	10,612	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	18,681	10,590	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	19,035	10,579	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	19,385	10,556	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	19,604	10,499	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	19,715	10,437	108,171

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

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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.