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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Liberia	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	2,741	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	2,847	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	2,917	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	2,978	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	2,983	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	3,005	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	3,138	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	3,311	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	3,469	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	3,603	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	3,708	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	3,817	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	3,984	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	4,141	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	4,244	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	4,348	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	4,460	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	4,576	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	4,689	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	4,810	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	4,904	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	5,005	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	5,109	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	5,216	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.

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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