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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Congo - Kinshasa	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	51,181	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	52,782	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	54,453	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	56,170	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	57,860	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	59,599	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	61,474	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	63,479	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	65,590	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	67,800	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	70,114	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	72,550	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	75,138	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	77,792	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	80,534	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	83,368	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	86,229	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	89,193	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	92,209	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	95,232	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	98,320	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	101,499	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	104,767	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	108,171	2,787

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