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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Congo - Kinshasa	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	51,181	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	52,782	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	54,453	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	56,170	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	57,860	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	59,599	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	61,474	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	63,479	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	65,590	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	67,800	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	70,114	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	72,550	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	75,138	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	77,792	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	80,534	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	83,368	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	86,229	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	89,193	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	92,209	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	95,232	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	98,320	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	101,499	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	104,767	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	108,171	19,266

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

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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.

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