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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 DominicaOmanRomaniaRussia
702,34822,414147,218
712,40322,262146,600
712,45722,106145,980
722,51021,931145,310
722,56221,828144,652
722,61321,704144,071
722,66321,571143,522
722,71321,443143,053
722,76421,129142,809
732,81620,779142,746
732,87120,607142,789
732,92820,485142,853
732,98620,385142,964
733,04720,296143,205
733,11020,224143,510
733,17420,151146,094
743,24020,055146,410
743,30719,938146,678
743,37519,823146,846
743,44419,713146,834
753,51219,622146,768
753,58219,496146,463
763,65119,351145,849
763,69619,266146,693

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.

Russia

  • 1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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