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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	United States	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	279,040	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	282,162	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	284,969	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	287,625	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	290,108	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	292,805	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	295,517	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	298,380	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	301,231	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	304,094	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	306,772	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	309,327	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	311,583	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	313,878	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	316,060	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	318,386	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	320,739	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	323,072	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	325,122	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	326,838	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	328,330	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	331,512	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	332,032	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	333,288	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.

All data sources

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.

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: 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)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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