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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date OmanCongo - KinshasaGreece
2,34851,18110,618
2,40352,78210,662
2,45754,45310,718
2,51056,17010,757
2,56257,86010,783
2,61359,59910,809
2,66361,47410,841
2,71363,47910,874
2,76465,59010,901
2,81667,80010,930
2,87170,11410,959
2,92872,55010,973
2,98675,13810,957
3,04777,79210,898
3,11080,53410,819
3,17483,36810,747
3,24086,22910,677
3,30789,19310,633
3,37592,20910,612
3,44495,23210,590
3,51298,32010,579
3,582101,49910,556
3,651104,76710,499
3,696108,17110,437

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

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