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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Slovenia	Romania	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	1,998	22,414	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	2,004	22,262	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	2,006	22,106	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	2,009	21,931	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	2,010	21,828	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	2,011	21,704	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	2,015	21,571	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	2,022	21,443	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	2,033	21,129	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	2,036	20,779	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	2,056	20,607	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	2,063	20,485	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	2,067	20,385	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	2,071	20,296	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	2,074	20,224	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	2,076	20,151	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	2,078	20,055	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	2,079	19,938	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	2,081	19,823	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	2,087	19,713	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	2,104	19,622	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	2,118	19,496	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	2,123	19,351	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	2,124	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

Slovenia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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.