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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Brazzaville	Romania	Estonia
Dec 31, 1999	2,886	22,414	1,378
Dec 31, 2000	2,999	22,262	1,400
Dec 31, 2001	3,113	22,106	1,391
Dec 31, 2002	3,181	21,931	1,382
Dec 31, 2003	3,274	21,828	1,374
Dec 31, 2004	3,400	21,704	1,365
Dec 31, 2005	3,543	21,571	1,357
Dec 31, 2006	3,702	21,443	1,349
Dec 31, 2007	3,859	21,129	1,341
Dec 31, 2008	3,989	20,779	1,337
Dec 31, 2009	4,146	20,607	1,334
Dec 31, 2010	4,324	20,485	1,332
Dec 31, 2011	4,468	20,385	1,328
Dec 31, 2012	4,581	20,296	1,324
Dec 31, 2013	4,667	20,224	1,319
Dec 31, 2014	4,757	20,151	1,314
Dec 31, 2015	4,851	20,055	1,312
Dec 31, 2016	4,951	19,938	1,314
Dec 31, 2017	5,055	19,823	1,314
Dec 31, 2018	5,164	19,713	1,318
Dec 31, 2019	5,279	19,622	1,323
Dec 31, 2020	5,400	19,496	1,327
Dec 31, 2021	5,527	19,351	1,329
Dec 31, 2022	5,655	19,266	1,330

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