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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	United Kingdom	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	58,946	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	59,149	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	59,377	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	59,631	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	59,903	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	60,217	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	60,682	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	61,098	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	61,593	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	62,100	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	62,539	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	63,040	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	63,567	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	63,989	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	64,392	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	64,885	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	65,400	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	65,941	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	66,335	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	66,732	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	67,095	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	67,380	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	67,651	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	68,093	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

United Kingdom

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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.