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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	Dominica	Philippines	Romania	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	70	79,346	22,414	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	71	81,131	22,262	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	71	83,023	22,106	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	72	84,876	21,931	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	72	86,697	21,828	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	72	88,568	21,704	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	72	90,418	21,571	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	72	92,253	21,443	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	72	94,098	21,129	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	73	95,923	20,779	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	73	97,627	20,607	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	73	99,317	20,485	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	73	100,999	20,385	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	73	102,618	20,296	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	73	104,299	20,224	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	73	106,076	20,151	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	74	107,868	20,055	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	74	109,493	19,938	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	74	111,094	19,823	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	74	112,843	19,713	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	75	114,636	19,622	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	75	117,026	19,496	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	76	119,473	19,351	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	76	121,234	19,266	108,171

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

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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 Dominica, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.