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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Romania	Oman	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	22,414	2,348	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	22,262	2,403	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	22,106	2,457	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	21,931	2,510	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	21,828	2,562	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	21,704	2,613	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	21,571	2,663	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	21,443	2,713	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	21,129	2,764	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	20,779	2,816	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	20,607	2,871	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	20,485	2,928	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	20,385	2,986	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	20,296	3,047	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	20,224	3,110	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	20,151	3,174	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	20,055	3,240	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	19,938	3,307	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	19,823	3,375	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	19,713	3,444	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	19,622	3,512	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	19,496	3,582	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	19,351	3,651	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	19,266	3,696	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.

All data sources

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

Argentina

1800 - 1870: 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)
1870 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

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 Oman, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.