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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Chile	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	15,140	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	15,340	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	15,513	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	15,686	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	15,859	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	16,029	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	16,222	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	16,364	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	16,536	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	16,700	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	16,864	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	16,999	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	17,189	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	17,378	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	17,545	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	17,720	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	17,904	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	18,099	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	18,350	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	18,681	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	19,035	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	19,385	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	19,604	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	19,715	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

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.

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.