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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Benin	Romania	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	6,461	22,414	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	6,677	22,262	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	6,902	22,106	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	7,130	21,931	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	7,360	21,828	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	7,589	21,704	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	7,838	21,571	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	8,089	21,443	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	8,335	21,129	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	8,603	20,779	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	8,884	20,607	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	9,179	20,485	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	9,486	20,385	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	9,805	20,296	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	10,135	20,224	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	10,480	20,151	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	10,842	20,055	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	11,220	19,938	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	11,613	19,823	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	12,018	19,713	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	12,370	19,622	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	12,725	19,496	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	13,081	19,351	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	13,439	19,266	108,171

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