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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date GreeceNepalCongo - Kinshasa
10,61823,08751,181
10,66223,48752,782
10,71823,88754,453
10,75724,27356,170
10,78324,64557,860
10,80924,98959,599
10,84125,25561,474
10,87425,48463,479
10,90125,73265,590
10,93025,99867,800
10,95926,29870,114
10,97326,66472,550
10,95727,08175,138
10,89827,50577,792
10,81927,91780,534
10,74728,31183,368
10,67728,67886,229
10,63329,03489,193
10,61229,38492,209
10,59029,71895,232
10,57930,05798,320
10,55630,595101,499
10,49931,311104,767
10,43731,845108,171

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

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