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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 EstoniaRomaniaCongo - Kinshasa
1,37822,41451,181
1,40022,26252,782
1,39122,10654,453
1,38221,93156,170
1,37421,82857,860
1,36521,70459,599
1,35721,57161,474
1,34921,44363,479
1,34121,12965,590
1,33720,77967,800
1,33420,60770,114
1,33220,48572,550
1,32820,38575,138
1,32420,29677,792
1,31920,22480,534
1,31420,15183,368
1,31220,05586,229
1,31419,93889,193
1,31419,82392,209
1,31819,71395,232
1,32319,62298,320
1,32719,496101,499
1,32919,351104,767
1,33019,266108,171

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.

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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

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