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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	United States	Romania	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	277	279,040	22,414	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	281	282,162	22,262	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	285	284,969	22,106	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	288	287,625	21,931	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	289	290,108	21,828	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	293	292,805	21,704	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	296	295,517	21,571	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	304	298,380	21,443	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	311	301,231	21,129	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	319	304,094	20,779	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	319	306,772	20,607	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	318	309,327	20,485	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	319	311,583	20,385	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	321	313,878	20,296	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	324	316,060	20,224	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	327	318,386	20,151	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	331	320,739	20,055	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	335	323,072	19,938	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	343	325,122	19,823	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	353	326,838	19,713	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	361	328,330	19,622	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	366	331,512	19,496	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	372	332,032	19,351	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	380	333,288	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.

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: 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)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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.