Skip to content
ChartBasis
Choose a language: English

Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Add a country

Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Bosnia & HerzegovinaMoldovaRomania
3,8114,24422,414
3,9014,19922,262
3,9194,15422,106
3,9234,10821,931
3,9404,05921,828
3,9754,01321,704
3,9913,96621,571
3,9933,91921,443
3,9903,87321,129
3,9873,82920,779
3,9853,78820,607
3,9833,74820,485
3,9803,70920,385
3,9773,67120,296
3,9733,63320,224
3,9683,59520,151
3,9633,55820,055
3,9573,52219,938
3,9513,48519,823
3,9443,44819,713
3,9373,41219,622
3,9293,37619,496
3,9213,33919,351
3,8763,57019,266

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.

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 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 Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.