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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Portugal	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	10,144	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	10,215	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	10,288	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	10,344	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	10,383	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	10,408	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	10,427	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	10,446	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	10,467	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	10,482	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	10,492	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	10,497	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	10,481	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	10,439	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	10,382	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	10,326	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	10,283	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	10,251	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	10,226	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	10,209	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	10,212	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	10,223	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	10,214	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	10,200	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

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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.