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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Congo - Brazzaville	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	277	2,886	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	281	2,999	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	285	3,113	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	288	3,181	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	289	3,274	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	293	3,400	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	296	3,543	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	304	3,702	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	311	3,859	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	319	3,989	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	319	4,146	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	318	4,324	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	319	4,468	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	321	4,581	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	324	4,667	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	327	4,757	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	331	4,851	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	335	4,951	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	343	5,055	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	353	5,164	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	361	5,279	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	366	5,400	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	372	5,527	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	380	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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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.