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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date CroatiaCongo - KinshasaGreece
4,37751,18110,618
4,33452,78210,662
4,17154,45310,718
4,17656,17010,757
4,17657,86010,783
4,17959,59910,809
4,18261,47410,841
4,18363,47910,874
4,18365,59010,901
4,18167,80010,930
4,17770,11410,959
4,16772,55010,973
4,15475,13810,957
4,14177,79210,898
4,12680,53410,819
4,10983,36810,747
4,08186,22910,677
4,04789,19310,633
4,00692,20910,612
3,96895,23210,590
3,94598,32010,579
3,925101,49910,556
3,839104,76710,499
3,790108,17110,437

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

Croatia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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 Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.