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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	India	Congo - Kinshasa	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	1,000,965	51,181	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	1,018,667	52,782	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	1,036,256	54,453	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	1,053,663	56,170	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	1,070,882	57,860	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	1,087,941	59,599	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	1,104,803	61,474	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	1,121,354	63,479	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	1,137,576	65,590	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	1,153,547	67,800	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	1,169,239	70,114	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	1,184,638	72,550	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	1,199,810	75,138	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	1,214,839	77,792	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	1,229,765	80,534	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	1,244,577	83,368	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	1,259,236	86,229	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	1,273,693	89,193	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	1,287,902	92,209	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	1,301,821	95,232	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	1,315,530	98,320	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	1,329,062	101,499	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	1,339,912	104,767	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	1,349,060	108,171	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

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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 - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.