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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 - KinshasaRomaniaThailand
51,18122,41459,748
52,78222,26260,165
54,45322,10660,746
56,17021,93161,323
57,86021,82861,884
59,59921,70462,425
61,47421,57162,956
63,47921,44363,467
65,59021,12963,937
67,80020,77964,381
70,11420,60764,804
72,55020,48565,208
75,13820,38565,599
77,79220,29665,970
80,53420,22466,332
83,36820,15166,673
86,22920,05566,975
89,19319,93867,250
92,20919,82367,506
95,23219,71367,750
98,32019,62267,975
101,49919,49668,180
104,76719,35168,366
108,17119,26668,457

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.

Thailand

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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