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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Sudan	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	26,168	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	26,771	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	27,387	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	28,017	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	28,662	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	29,321	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	29,996	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	30,686	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	31,393	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	32,137	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	33,078	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	33,891	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	34,568	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	35,293	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	36,093	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	37,058	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	38,165	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	39,294	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	40,512	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	41,764	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	42,952	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	44,121	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	45,290	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	46,498	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

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