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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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

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).

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.