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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BangladeshCongo - KinshasaRomania
132,90751,18122,414
135,20752,78222,262
137,42054,45322,106
139,57356,17021,931
141,65057,86021,828
143,64459,59921,704
145,54661,47421,571
147,37663,47921,443
149,04765,59021,129
150,56267,80020,779
152,18970,11420,607
153,92772,55020,485
155,63475,13820,385
157,32677,79220,296
158,99980,53420,224
160,65083,36820,151
162,27386,22920,055
163,93889,19319,938
165,65592,20919,823
167,35895,23219,713
169,04598,32019,622
170,709101,49919,496
172,354104,76719,351
174,217108,17119,266

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.

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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

Bangladesh

  • 1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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