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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 BarbadosBurundiRomaniaCongo - Kinshasa
2736,12822,41451,181
2746,28222,26252,782
2756,46622,10654,453
2766,67021,93156,170
2786,89721,82857,860
2797,16721,70459,599
2807,43921,57161,474
2817,70921,44363,479
2827,99121,12965,590
2838,31820,77967,800
2858,74120,60770,114
2869,14020,48572,550
2879,44020,38575,138
2889,74820,29677,792
28910,06920,22480,534
29010,38020,15183,368
29110,57720,05586,229
29110,72119,93889,193
29210,95519,82392,209
29311,22919,71395,232
29411,60219,62298,320
29411,98719,496101,499
29512,38419,351104,767
29512,79519,266108,171

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

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