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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Congo - Kinshasa	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	51,181	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	52,782	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	54,453	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	56,170	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	57,860	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	59,599	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	61,474	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	63,479	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	65,590	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	67,800	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	70,114	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	72,550	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	75,138	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	77,792	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	80,534	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	83,368	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	86,229	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	89,193	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	92,209	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	95,232	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	98,320	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	101,499	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	104,767	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	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

Zambia

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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.