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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Congo - Kinshasa	Indonesia
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	51,181	208,105
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	52,782	211,408
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	54,453	214,475
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	56,170	217,516
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	57,860	220,549
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	59,599	224,473
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	61,474	227,534
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	63,479	230,739
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	65,590	233,918
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	67,800	237,056
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	70,114	240,140
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	72,550	243,171
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	75,138	246,150
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	77,792	249,086
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	80,534	251,947
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	83,368	254,702
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	86,229	257,351
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	89,193	259,906
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	92,209	262,379
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	95,232	264,789
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	98,320	267,142
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	101,499	269,437
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	104,767	271,674
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	108,171	273,409

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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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