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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Chile	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	15,140	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	15,340	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	15,513	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	15,686	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	15,859	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	16,029	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	16,222	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	16,364	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	16,536	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	16,700	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	16,864	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	16,999	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	17,189	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	17,378	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	17,545	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	17,720	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	17,904	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	18,099	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	18,350	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	18,681	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	19,035	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	19,385	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	19,604	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	19,715	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

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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