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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	South Africa	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	46,257	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	46,958	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	47,820	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	48,480	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	48,951	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	49,478	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	50,054	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	50,667	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	51,339	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	52,077	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	52,862	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	53,682	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	54,518	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	55,356	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	56,215	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	57,075	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	57,947	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	58,830	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	59,715	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	60,595	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	61,469	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	62,355	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	62,900	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	63,382	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

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

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.