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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	United States	France	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	279,040	60,396	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	282,162	60,811	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	284,969	61,255	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	287,625	61,703	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	290,108	62,141	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	292,805	62,600	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	295,517	63,073	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	298,380	63,513	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	301,231	63,906	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	304,094	64,264	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	306,772	64,594	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	309,327	64,913	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	311,583	65,231	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	313,878	65,552	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	316,060	65,891	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	318,386	66,212	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	320,739	66,480	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	323,072	66,730	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	325,122	67,015	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	326,838	67,347	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	328,330	67,660	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	331,512	67,901	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	332,032	68,114	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	333,288	68,387	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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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.