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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 RomaniaCongo - KinshasaAlbania
22,41451,1813,085
22,26252,7823,065
22,10654,4533,047
21,93156,1703,038
21,82857,8603,026
21,70459,5993,014
21,57161,4742,998
21,44363,4792,979
21,12965,5902,957
20,77967,8002,934
20,60770,1142,915
20,48572,5502,900
20,38575,1382,892
20,29677,7922,888
20,22480,5342,882
20,15183,3682,876
20,05586,2292,868
19,93889,1932,863
19,82392,2092,861
19,71395,2322,854
19,62298,3202,842
19,496101,4992,825
19,351104,7672,799
19,266108,1712,787

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