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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United Arab Emirates	Congo - Kinshasa	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	3,101	51,181	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	3,284	52,782	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	3,458	54,453	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	3,613	56,170	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	3,754	57,860	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	3,882	59,599	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	4,000	61,474	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	4,532	63,479	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	5,623	65,590	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	7,277	67,800	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	8,164	70,114	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	8,152	72,550	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	8,438	75,138	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	8,747	77,792	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	9,077	80,534	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	9,321	83,368	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	9,461	86,229	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	9,587	89,193	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	9,699	92,209	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	9,796	95,232	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	9,879	98,320	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	9,953	101,499	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	10,018	104,767	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	10,099	108,171	19,266

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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