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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	Poland	Romania	Oman	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	22,414	2,348	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	22,262	2,403	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	22,106	2,457	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	21,931	2,510	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	21,828	2,562	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	21,704	2,613	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	21,571	2,663	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	21,443	2,713	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	21,129	2,764	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	20,779	2,816	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	20,607	2,871	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	20,485	2,928	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	20,385	2,986	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	20,296	3,047	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	20,224	3,110	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	20,151	3,174	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	20,055	3,240	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	19,938	3,307	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	19,823	3,375	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	19,713	3,444	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	19,622	3,512	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	19,496	3,582	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	19,351	3,651	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	19,266	3,696	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

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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