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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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