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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Paraguay	Congo - Kinshasa	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	5,366	51,181	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	5,473	52,782	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	5,579	54,453	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	5,683	56,170	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	5,786	57,860	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	5,886	59,599	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	5,984	61,474	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	6,080	63,479	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	6,173	65,590	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	6,264	67,800	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	6,352	70,114	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	6,438	72,550	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	6,522	75,138	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	6,605	77,792	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	6,688	80,534	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	6,769	83,368	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	6,850	86,229	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	6,930	89,193	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	7,012	92,209	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	7,095	95,232	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	7,179	98,320	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	7,263	101,499	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	7,348	104,767	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	7,432	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

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