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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 BarbadosCambodiaRomaniaCongo - Kinshasa
27312,12222,41451,181
27412,31722,26252,782
27512,50422,10654,453
27612,69121,93156,170
27812,88121,82857,860
27913,07621,70459,599
28013,27621,57161,474
28113,46121,44363,479
28213,63021,12965,590
28313,80820,77967,800
28513,99020,60770,114
28614,16220,48572,550
28714,32220,38575,138
28814,48020,29677,792
28914,63720,22480,534
29014,79320,15183,368
29114,99420,05586,229
29115,23819,93889,193
29215,48019,82392,209
29315,71719,71395,232
29415,94419,62298,320
29416,14919,496101,499
29516,33819,351104,767
29516,51419,266108,171

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