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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 BarbadosDjiboutiCongo - KinshasaRomania
27364651,18122,414
27466952,78222,262
27569354,45322,106
27671656,17021,931
27869157,86021,828
27965759,59921,704
28066661,47421,571
28167963,47921,443
28269465,59021,129
28370967,80020,779
28572570,11420,607
28674172,55020,485
28775775,13820,385
28877477,79220,296
28979280,53420,224
29081083,36820,151
29182886,22920,055
29184789,19319,938
29286592,20919,823
29388495,23219,713
29489898,32019,622
294912101,49919,496
295924104,76719,351
295937108,17119,266

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

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