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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Congo - Kinshasa	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	51,181	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	52,782	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	54,453	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	56,170	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	57,860	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	59,599	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	61,474	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	63,479	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	65,590	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	67,800	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	70,114	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	72,550	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	75,138	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	77,792	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	80,534	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	83,368	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	86,229	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	89,193	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	92,209	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	95,232	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	98,320	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	101,499	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	104,767	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	108,171	51,332

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

Colombia

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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