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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Liberia	Congo - Kinshasa	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	2,741	51,181	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	2,847	52,782	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	2,917	54,453	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	2,978	56,170	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	2,983	57,860	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	3,005	59,599	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	3,138	61,474	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	3,311	63,479	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	3,469	65,590	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	3,603	67,800	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	3,708	70,114	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	3,817	72,550	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	3,984	75,138	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,792	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	4,244	80,534	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	4,348	83,368	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	4,460	86,229	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	4,576	89,193	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	4,689	92,209	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	4,810	95,232	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	4,904	98,320	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	5,005	101,499	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	5,109	104,767	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	5,216	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

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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.