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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Congo - Kinshasa	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	51,181	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	52,782	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	54,453	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	56,170	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	57,860	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	59,599	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	61,474	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	63,479	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	65,590	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	67,800	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	70,114	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	72,550	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	75,138	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	77,792	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	80,534	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	83,368	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	86,229	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	89,193	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	92,209	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	95,232	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	98,320	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	101,499	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	104,767	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	108,171	8,834

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

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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