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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Norway	Congo - Kinshasa	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	4,463	51,181	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	4,492	52,782	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	4,515	54,453	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	4,539	56,170	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	4,566	57,860	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	4,593	59,599	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	4,624	61,474	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	4,662	63,479	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	4,710	65,590	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	4,769	67,800	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	4,830	70,114	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	4,890	72,550	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	4,954	75,138	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	5,020	77,792	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	5,081	80,534	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	5,138	83,368	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	5,191	86,229	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	5,237	89,193	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	5,278	92,209	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	5,313	95,232	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	5,349	98,320	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	5,380	101,499	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	5,409	104,767	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	5,458	108,171	10,437

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

Norway

1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

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.