Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Four countries are being compared, the most the chart can show clearly. Remove one to add another.

Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Argentina	Romania	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	277	36,924	22,414	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	281	37,336	22,262	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	285	37,714	22,106	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,079	21,931	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,438	21,828	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,800	21,704	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	296	39,171	21,571	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	304	39,556	21,443	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	311	39,947	21,129	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	319	40,343	20,779	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	319	40,736	20,607	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	318	41,401	20,485	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	319	41,881	20,385	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	321	42,360	20,296	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	324	42,836	20,224	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	327	43,310	20,151	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	331	43,779	20,055	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	335	44,245	19,938	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	343	44,706	19,823	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	353	45,162	19,713	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	361	45,613	19,622	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	366	46,058	19,496	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	372	46,496	19,351	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	380	46,736	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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Argentina

1800 - 1870: 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)
1870 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

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