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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Colombia	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	38,365	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	38,911	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	39,411	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	39,918	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	40,416	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	40,899	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	41,374	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	41,862	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	42,324	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	42,781	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	43,264	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	43,771	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	44,225	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	44,660	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	45,081	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	45,846	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	46,290	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	46,796	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	47,385	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	48,222	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	49,326	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	50,283	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	50,978	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	51,332	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.

Colombia

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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