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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Burkina Faso	Romania	Congo - Brazzaville
Dec 31, 1999	11,075	22,414	2,886
Dec 31, 2000	11,405	22,262	2,999
Dec 31, 2001	11,828	22,106	3,113
Dec 31, 2002	12,380	21,931	3,181
Dec 31, 2003	12,829	21,828	3,274
Dec 31, 2004	13,178	21,704	3,400
Dec 31, 2005	13,540	21,571	3,543
Dec 31, 2006	13,917	21,443	3,702
Dec 31, 2007	14,309	21,129	3,859
Dec 31, 2008	14,722	20,779	3,989
Dec 31, 2009	15,152	20,607	4,146
Dec 31, 2010	15,600	20,485	4,324
Dec 31, 2011	16,064	20,385	4,468
Dec 31, 2012	16,563	20,296	4,581
Dec 31, 2013	17,072	20,224	4,667
Dec 31, 2014	17,575	20,151	4,757
Dec 31, 2015	18,094	20,055	4,851
Dec 31, 2016	18,621	19,938	4,951
Dec 31, 2017	19,157	19,823	5,055
Dec 31, 2018	19,698	19,713	5,164
Dec 31, 2019	20,242	19,622	5,279
Dec 31, 2020	20,788	19,496	5,400
Dec 31, 2021	21,336	19,351	5,527
Dec 31, 2022	21,889	19,266	5,655

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 Burkina Faso, Congo - Brazzaville; the database as a whole is cited above.