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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Puerto Rico	Congo - Kinshasa	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	3,800	51,181	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	3,811	52,782	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	3,819	54,453	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	3,824	56,170	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	3,826	57,860	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	3,827	59,599	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	3,822	61,474	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	3,805	63,479	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	3,783	65,590	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	3,761	67,800	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	3,741	70,114	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	3,722	72,550	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	3,679	75,138	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	3,636	77,792	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	3,589	80,534	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	3,534	83,368	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	3,473	86,229	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	3,411	89,193	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	3,352	92,209	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	3,295	95,232	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	3,268	98,320	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	3,247	101,499	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	3,232	104,767	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	3,228	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.

All data sources

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

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 Puerto Rico, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.