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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 - KinshasaMoldova
22,41451,1814,244
22,26252,7824,199
22,10654,4534,154
21,93156,1704,108
21,82857,8604,059
21,70459,5994,013
21,57161,4743,966
21,44363,4793,919
21,12965,5903,873
20,77967,8003,829
20,60770,1143,788
20,48572,5503,748
20,38575,1383,709
20,29677,7923,671
20,22480,5343,633
20,15183,3683,595
20,05586,2293,558
19,93889,1933,522
19,82392,2093,485
19,71395,2323,448
19,62298,3203,412
19,496101,4993,376
19,351104,7673,339
19,266108,1713,570

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