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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 - KinshasaSaudi ArabiaRomania
51,18119,96422,414
52,78220,42622,262
54,45320,95622,106
56,17021,54921,931
57,86022,18921,828
59,59922,85021,704
61,47423,51621,571
63,47924,17821,443
65,59024,84121,129
67,80025,51820,779
70,11426,22720,607
72,55027,06820,485
75,13827,81020,385
77,79228,51620,296
80,53429,22020,224
83,36829,93620,151
86,22930,64620,055
89,19331,36019,938
92,20932,18419,823
95,23232,86919,713
98,32033,66119,622
101,49934,54219,496
104,76733,65119,351
108,17134,08119,266

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.

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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

Saudi Arabia

  • 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

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; the database as a whole is cited above.