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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Montenegro	Romania	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	623	22,414	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	623	22,262	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	623	22,106	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	622	21,931	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	621	21,828	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	621	21,704	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	621	21,571	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	620	21,443	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	620	21,129	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	621	20,779	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	622	20,607	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	623	20,485	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	622	20,385	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	622	20,296	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	622	20,224	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	621	20,151	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	620	20,055	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	618	19,938	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	616	19,823	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	614	19,713	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	613	19,622	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	612	19,496	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	611	19,351	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	610	19,266	108,171

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

Montenegro

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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.