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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Congo - Kinshasa	Ethiopia
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	51,181	63,575
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	52,782	65,213
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	54,453	66,889
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	56,170	68,649
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	57,860	70,491
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	59,599	72,389
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	61,474	74,327
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	63,479	76,326
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	65,590	78,411
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	67,800	80,564
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	70,114	82,787
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	72,550	85,096
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	75,138	87,530
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	77,792	90,066
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	80,534	92,632
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	83,368	95,337
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	86,229	98,114
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	89,193	100,858
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	92,209	103,654
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	95,232	106,466
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	98,320	109,267
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	101,499	112,100
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	104,767	114,964
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	108,171	117,924

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

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, Ethiopia; the database as a whole is cited above.