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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Brazzaville	Laos	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	2,886	5,286	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	2,999	5,397	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	3,113	5,499	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	3,181	5,578	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	3,274	5,654	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	3,400	5,746	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	3,543	5,836	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	3,702	5,931	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	3,859	6,035	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	3,989	6,145	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	4,146	6,257	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	4,324	6,368	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	4,468	6,477	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	4,581	6,586	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	4,667	6,695	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	4,757	6,804	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	4,851	6,912	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	4,951	7,019	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	5,055	7,127	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	5,164	7,234	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	5,279	7,343	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	5,400	7,452	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	5,527	7,560	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	5,655	7,666	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 - Brazzaville, Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.