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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Egypt	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	66,001	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	67,377	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	68,790	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	70,269	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	71,785	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	73,298	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	74,832	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	76,432	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	78,140	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	79,945	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	81,840	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	83,844	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	85,969	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	88,198	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	90,566	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	93,009	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	95,432	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	97,882	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	100,303	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	102,617	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	104,816	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	106,893	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	108,871	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	110,593	108,171

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

Egypt

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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