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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 North MacedoniaCongo - KinshasaRomania
2,00651,18122,414
2,01752,78222,262
2,02654,45322,106
2,01156,17021,931
2,01857,86021,828
2,02459,59921,704
2,02861,47421,571
2,03163,47921,443
2,03565,59021,129
2,03867,80020,779
2,04270,11420,607
2,04672,55020,485
2,04975,13820,385
2,05277,79220,296
2,05580,53420,224
2,05883,36820,151
2,06186,22920,055
2,06389,19319,938
2,06592,20919,823
2,06795,23219,713
2,06898,32019,622
2,065101,49919,496
2,057104,76719,351
2,048108,17119,266

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

North Macedonia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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.