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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Brazzaville	Romania	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	2,886	22,414	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	2,999	22,262	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	3,113	22,106	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	3,181	21,931	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	3,274	21,828	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	3,400	21,704	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	3,543	21,571	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	3,702	21,443	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	3,859	21,129	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	3,989	20,779	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	4,146	20,607	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	4,324	20,485	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	4,468	20,385	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	4,581	20,296	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	4,667	20,224	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	4,757	20,151	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	4,851	20,055	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	4,951	19,938	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	5,055	19,823	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	5,164	19,713	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	5,279	19,622	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	5,400	19,496	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	5,527	19,351	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	5,655	19,266	7,432

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