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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 Congo - KinshasaEcuadorOmanRomania
51,18112,2682,34822,414
52,78212,4462,40322,262
54,45312,6292,45722,106
56,17012,8272,51021,931
57,86013,0742,56221,828
59,59913,3682,61321,704
61,47413,6612,66321,571
63,47913,9152,71321,443
65,59014,1332,76421,129
67,80014,3522,81620,779
70,11414,5692,87120,607
72,55014,7862,92820,485
75,13815,0022,98620,385
77,79215,2183,04720,296
80,53415,4333,11020,224
83,36815,6473,17420,151
86,22915,8603,24020,055
89,19316,0723,30719,938
92,20916,2823,37519,823
95,23216,4893,44419,713
98,32016,6933,51219,622
101,49916,8943,58219,496
104,76717,0933,65119,351
108,17117,2883,69619,266

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

Ecuador

  • 1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.