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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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