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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date GreeceCongo - KinshasaGuinea
10,61851,1817,610
10,66252,7827,780
10,71854,4537,821
10,75756,1707,906
10,78357,8608,121
10,80959,5998,317
10,84161,4748,478
10,87463,4798,650
10,90165,5908,860
10,93067,8009,091
10,95970,1149,327
10,97372,5509,571
10,95775,1389,825
10,89877,79210,084
10,81980,53410,351
10,74783,36810,632
10,67786,22910,924
10,63389,19311,225
10,61292,20911,534
10,59095,23211,855
10,57998,32012,160
10,556101,49912,469
10,499104,76712,778
10,437108,17113,087

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