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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 LithuaniaRomaniaCongo - Kinshasa
3,41922,41451,181
3,39522,26252,782
3,36722,10654,453
3,34021,93156,170
3,31321,82857,860
3,27621,70459,599
3,22321,57161,474
3,17221,44363,479
3,13421,12965,590
3,10220,77967,800
3,06820,60770,114
3,00420,48572,550
2,93720,38575,138
2,89820,29677,792
2,86920,22480,534
2,84420,15183,368
2,81820,05586,229
2,78219,93889,193
2,74419,82392,209
2,71819,71395,232
2,71019,62298,320
2,71119,496101,499
2,72419,351104,767
2,74819,266108,171

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