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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	North Macedonia	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	2,006	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	2,017	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	2,026	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	2,011	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	2,018	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	2,024	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	2,028	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	2,031	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	2,035	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	2,038	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	2,042	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	2,046	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	2,049	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	2,052	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	2,055	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	2,058	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	2,061	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	2,063	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	2,065	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	2,067	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	2,068	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	2,065	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	2,057	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	2,048	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

North Macedonia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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.