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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Congo - Kinshasa	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	51,181	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	52,782	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	54,453	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	56,170	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	57,860	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	59,599	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	61,474	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	63,479	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	65,590	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	67,800	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	70,114	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	72,550	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	75,138	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	77,792	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	80,534	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	83,368	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	86,229	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	89,193	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	92,209	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	95,232	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	98,320	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	101,499	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	104,767	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	108,171	19,266

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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