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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Romania	Singapore
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	22,414	3,959
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	22,262	4,028
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	22,106	4,138
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	21,931	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	21,828	4,115
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	21,704	4,167
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	21,571	4,266
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	21,443	4,401
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	21,129	4,589
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	20,779	4,839
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	20,607	4,988
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	20,485	5,077
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	20,385	5,184
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	20,296	5,312
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	20,224	5,399
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	20,151	5,470
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	20,055	5,535
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	19,938	5,607
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	19,823	5,612
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	19,713	5,639
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	19,622	5,704
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	19,496	5,686
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	19,351	5,716
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	19,266	5,750

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

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.

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.