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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Hungary	Oman	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	10,244	2,348	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	10,218	2,403	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	10,194	2,457	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	10,165	2,510	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	10,136	2,562	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	10,114	2,613	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	10,094	2,663	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	10,078	2,713	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	10,062	2,764	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	10,045	2,816	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	10,029	2,871	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	10,007	2,928	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	9,978	2,986	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	9,927	3,047	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	9,900	3,110	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	9,873	3,174	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	9,850	3,240	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	9,821	3,307	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	9,794	3,375	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	9,782	3,444	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	9,778	3,512	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	9,757	3,582	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	9,716	3,651	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	9,690	3,696	19,266

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

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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.