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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Cuba	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	11,108	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	11,147	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	11,179	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	11,210	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	11,241	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	11,260	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	11,268	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	11,266	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	11,261	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	11,258	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	11,260	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	11,262	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	11,264	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	11,262	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	11,250	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	11,238	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	11,214	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	11,180	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	11,147	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	11,116	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	11,105	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	11,089	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	11,046	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	11,003	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

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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.