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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 - KinshasaSudan
22,41451,18126,168
22,26252,78226,771
22,10654,45327,387
21,93156,17028,017
21,82857,86028,662
21,70459,59929,321
21,57161,47429,996
21,44363,47930,686
21,12965,59031,393
20,77967,80032,137
20,60770,11433,078
20,48572,55033,891
20,38575,13834,568
20,29677,79235,293
20,22480,53436,093
20,15183,36837,058
20,05586,22938,165
19,93889,19339,294
19,82392,20940,512
19,71395,23241,764
19,62298,32042,952
19,496101,49944,121
19,351104,76745,290
19,266108,17146,498

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