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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 BarbadosCongo - KinshasaRomaniaUkraine
27351,18122,41449,491
27452,78222,26249,014
27554,45322,10648,520
27656,17021,93148,074
27857,86021,82847,692
27959,59921,70447,342
28061,47421,57147,003
28163,47921,44346,685
28265,59021,12946,407
28367,80020,77946,156
28570,11420,60745,951
28672,55020,48545,768
28775,13820,38545,604
28877,79220,29645,492
28980,53420,22445,389
29083,36820,15144,944
29186,22920,05544,429
29189,19319,93844,208
29292,20919,82344,029
29395,23219,71343,944
29498,32019,62243,951
294101,49919,49643,904
295104,76719,35143,746
295108,17119,26639,897

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