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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 - KinshasaRomaniaJordan
51,18122,4144,591
52,78222,2624,700
54,45322,1064,811
56,17021,9314,923
57,86021,8285,037
59,59921,7045,161
61,47421,5715,295
63,47921,4435,765
65,59021,1296,243
67,80020,7796,397
70,11420,6076,538
72,55020,4856,680
75,13820,3856,840
77,79220,2966,952
80,53420,2247,706
83,36820,1518,839
86,22920,0559,506
89,19319,9389,863
92,20919,82310,066
95,23219,71310,273
98,32019,62210,480
101,49919,49610,628
104,76719,35110,716
108,17119,26610,849

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.

Jordan

  • 1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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