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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 - KinshasaLaos
22,41451,1815,286
22,26252,7825,397
22,10654,4535,499
21,93156,1705,578
21,82857,8605,654
21,70459,5995,746
21,57161,4745,836
21,44363,4795,931
21,12965,5906,035
20,77967,8006,145
20,60770,1146,257
20,48572,5506,368
20,38575,1386,477
20,29677,7926,586
20,22480,5346,695
20,15183,3686,804
20,05586,2296,912
19,93889,1937,019
19,82392,2097,127
19,71395,2327,234
19,62298,3207,343
19,496101,4997,452
19,351104,7677,560
19,266108,1717,666

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, Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.