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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Ecuador	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	12,268	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	12,446	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	12,629	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	12,827	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	13,074	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	13,368	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	13,661	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	13,915	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	14,133	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	14,352	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	14,569	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	14,786	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	15,002	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	15,218	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	15,433	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	15,647	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	15,860	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	16,072	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	16,282	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	16,489	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	16,693	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	16,894	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	17,093	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	17,288	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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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