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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 LatviaRomaniaCongo - Kinshasa
2,38622,41451,181
2,36322,26252,782
2,33322,10654,453
2,30621,93156,170
2,28421,82857,860
2,25921,70459,599
2,23521,57161,474
2,21521,44363,479
2,19721,12965,590
2,17420,77967,800
2,13820,60770,114
2,09320,48572,550
2,05520,38575,138
2,03020,29677,792
2,00920,22480,534
1,99120,15183,368
1,97420,05586,229
1,95619,93889,193
1,93819,82392,209
1,92319,71395,232
1,91019,62298,320
1,89719,496101,499
1,88019,351104,767
1,88319,266108,171

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