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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Congo - Kinshasa	Latvia
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	51,181	2,386
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	52,782	2,363
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	54,453	2,333
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	56,170	2,306
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	57,860	2,284
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	59,599	2,259
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	61,474	2,235
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	63,479	2,215
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	65,590	2,197
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	67,800	2,174
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	70,114	2,138
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	72,550	2,093
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	75,138	2,055
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	77,792	2,030
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	80,534	2,009
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	83,368	1,991
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	86,229	1,974
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	89,193	1,956
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	92,209	1,938
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	95,232	1,923
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	98,320	1,910
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	101,499	1,897
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	104,767	1,880
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	108,171	1,883

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