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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 Congo - KinshasaRomaniaIndonesia
51,18122,414208,105
52,78222,262211,408
54,45322,106214,475
56,17021,931217,516
57,86021,828220,549
59,59921,704224,473
61,47421,571227,534
63,47921,443230,739
65,59021,129233,918
67,80020,779237,056
70,11420,607240,140
72,55020,485243,171
75,13820,385246,150
77,79220,296249,086
80,53420,224251,947
83,36820,151254,702
86,22920,055257,351
89,19319,938259,906
92,20919,823262,379
95,23219,713264,789
98,32019,622267,142
101,49919,496269,437
104,76719,351271,674
108,17119,266273,409

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

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.

Indonesia

  • 1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
  • 1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.