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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	Iceland	Chile	Romania	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	277	15,140	22,414	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	281	15,340	22,262	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	285	15,513	22,106	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	288	15,686	21,931	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	289	15,859	21,828	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	293	16,029	21,704	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	296	16,222	21,571	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	304	16,364	21,443	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	311	16,536	21,129	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	319	16,700	20,779	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	319	16,864	20,607	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	318	16,999	20,485	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	319	17,189	20,385	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	321	17,378	20,296	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	324	17,545	20,224	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	327	17,720	20,151	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	331	17,904	20,055	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	335	18,099	19,938	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	343	18,350	19,823	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	353	18,681	19,713	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	361	19,035	19,622	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	366	19,385	19,496	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	372	19,604	19,351	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	380	19,715	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.

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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.