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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 BangladeshSudanRomania
132,90726,16822,414
135,20726,77122,262
137,42027,38722,106
139,57328,01721,931
141,65028,66221,828
143,64429,32121,704
145,54629,99621,571
147,37630,68621,443
149,04731,39321,129
150,56232,13720,779
152,18933,07820,607
153,92733,89120,485
155,63434,56820,385
157,32635,29320,296
158,99936,09320,224
160,65037,05820,151
162,27338,16520,055
163,93839,29419,938
165,65540,51219,823
167,35841,76419,713
169,04542,95219,622
170,70944,12119,496
172,35445,29019,351
174,21746,49819,266

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 Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.