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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 HaitiCongo - KinshasaRomania
8,12151,18122,414
8,27952,78222,262
8,43054,45322,106
8,58056,17021,931
8,73957,86021,828
8,90059,59921,704
9,06161,47421,571
9,21663,47921,443
9,36465,59021,129
9,50867,80020,779
9,65270,11420,607
9,55372,55020,485
9,67075,13820,385
9,79377,79220,296
9,92280,53420,224
10,04783,36820,151
10,25486,22920,055
10,48689,19319,938
10,64792,20919,823
10,78895,23219,713
10,93398,32019,622
11,077101,49919,496
11,215104,76719,351
11,349108,17119,266

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.

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