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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 - KinshasaMali
22,41451,18110,596
22,26252,78210,833
22,10654,45310,890
21,93156,17011,007
21,82857,86011,307
21,70459,59911,579
21,57161,47411,804
21,44363,47912,043
21,12965,59012,337
20,77967,80012,657
20,60770,11412,986
20,48572,55013,325
20,38575,13813,679
20,29677,79214,040
20,22480,53414,412
20,15183,36814,803
20,05586,22915,210
19,93889,19315,629
19,82392,20916,060
19,71395,23216,507
19,62298,32016,967
19,496101,49917,442
19,351104,76717,930
19,266108,17118,494

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