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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Congo - Brazzaville	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	2,886	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	2,999	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	3,113	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	3,181	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	3,274	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	3,400	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	3,543	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	3,702	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	3,859	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	3,989	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	4,146	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	4,324	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	4,468	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	4,581	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	4,667	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	4,757	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	4,851	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	4,951	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	5,055	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	5,164	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	5,279	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	5,400	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	5,527	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	5,655	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

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).

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 - Brazzaville; the database as a whole is cited above.