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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date PanamaCongo - KinshasaRomania
2,84851,18122,414
2,90052,78222,262
2,95254,45322,106
3,00356,17021,931
3,05457,86021,828
3,10459,59921,704
3,15561,47421,571
3,20663,47921,443
3,25865,59021,129
3,31067,80020,779
3,36070,11420,607
3,41172,55020,485
3,46075,13820,385
3,51077,79220,296
3,55980,53420,224
3,60883,36820,151
3,65786,22920,055
3,70589,19319,938
3,75392,20919,823
3,80195,23219,713
3,86298,32019,622
3,918101,49919,496
3,970104,76719,351
4,023108,17119,266

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

Panama

  • 1906–1945: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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.