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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date DominicaCongo - KinshasaRomaniaEcuador
7051,18122,41412,268
7152,78222,26212,446
7154,45322,10612,629
7256,17021,93112,827
7257,86021,82813,074
7259,59921,70413,368
7261,47421,57113,661
7263,47921,44313,915
7265,59021,12914,133
7367,80020,77914,352
7370,11420,60714,569
7372,55020,48514,786
7375,13820,38515,002
7377,79220,29615,218
7380,53420,22415,433
7383,36820,15115,647
7486,22920,05515,860
7489,19319,93816,072
7492,20919,82316,282
7495,23219,71316,489
7598,32019,62216,693
75101,49919,49616,894
76104,76719,35117,093
76108,17119,26617,288

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

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.

Ecuador

  • 1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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