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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Mexico	Congo - Kinshasa	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	97,242	51,181	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	98,403	52,782	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	99,599	54,453	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	100,863	56,170	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	102,132	57,860	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	103,334	59,599	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	104,508	61,474	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	105,738	63,479	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	107,083	65,590	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	108,554	67,800	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	110,061	70,114	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	111,468	72,550	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	112,826	75,138	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	114,163	77,792	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	115,471	80,534	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	116,757	83,368	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	118,017	86,229	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	117,444	89,193	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	118,799	92,209	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	120,289	95,232	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	121,872	98,320	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	123,260	101,499	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	124,462	104,767	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	125,247	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

Mexico

1550–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Prados de la Escosura, L., (2009), ‘Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America’, Journal of Latin America Studies, 41, pp. 279–307. (updated data)
1870-1895: Bértola, L., & Ocampo, J. A. (2012). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford University Press, Table A.2
1895–2003: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350

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.