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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Congo - Kinshasa	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	51,181	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	52,782	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	54,453	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	56,170	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	57,860	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	59,599	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	61,474	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	63,479	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	65,590	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	67,800	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	70,114	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	72,550	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	75,138	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	77,792	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	80,534	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	83,368	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	86,229	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	89,193	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	92,209	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	95,232	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	98,320	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	101,499	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	104,767	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	108,171	26,771

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

Peru

1600–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Seminario, B. (2015). El Desarrallo de la Economía Peruana en la Era Moderna, Universidad de Pacifico, Lima
1870-1901: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P, Table A2
1900-1913: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1913-1941: C.A. Bolona Behr, "Tariff Policies in Peru, 1880-1980", Ph.D. thesis, Oxford University, 1981;
1942-1950: "Cuadros del producto interno bruto en dollares de 1950", CEPAL, Santiago, October 1962, mimeographed;
1945-1950: Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, CEPAL, Santiago, 1978.

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