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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Singapore	Romania	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	3,959	22,414	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	4,028	22,262	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	4,138	22,106	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	4,176	21,931	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	4,115	21,828	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	4,167	21,704	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	4,266	21,571	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	4,401	21,443	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	4,589	21,129	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	4,839	20,779	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	4,988	20,607	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	5,077	20,485	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	5,184	20,385	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	5,312	20,296	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	5,399	20,224	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	5,470	20,151	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	5,535	20,055	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	5,607	19,938	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	5,612	19,823	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	5,639	19,713	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	5,704	19,622	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	5,686	19,496	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	5,716	19,351	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	5,750	19,266	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

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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.