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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Romania	Guatemala
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	22,414	11,487
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	22,262	11,728
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	22,106	11,968
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	21,931	12,258
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	21,828	12,556
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	21,704	12,873
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	21,571	13,200
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	21,443	13,517
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	21,129	13,828
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	20,779	14,139
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	20,607	14,452
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	20,485	14,769
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	20,385	15,088
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	20,296	15,405
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	20,224	15,719
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	20,151	16,030
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	20,055	16,337
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	19,938	16,636
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	19,823	16,929
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	19,713	17,223
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	19,622	17,518
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	19,496	17,812
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	19,351	18,106
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	19,266	18,348

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.

All data sources

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

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, Guatemala; the database as a whole is cited above.