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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 RomaniaAfghanistanCongo - Kinshasa
22,41422,20651,181
22,26222,46152,782
22,10622,50754,453
21,93123,60056,170
21,82825,00557,860
21,70425,69859,599
21,57126,33561,474
21,44327,15463,479
21,12927,38765,590
20,77927,70667,800
20,60728,48470,114
20,48529,12172,550
20,38529,75875,138
20,29630,42077,792
20,22431,10880,534
20,15131,82383,368
20,05532,56486,229
19,93833,33289,193
19,82334,12592,209
19,71334,94195,232
19,62235,97298,320
19,49637,034101,499
19,35138,127104,767
19,26639,252108,171

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