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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 RomaniaCentral African RepublicCongo - Kinshasa
22,4143,88951,181
22,2623,98052,782
22,1064,05454,453
21,9314,12856,170
21,8284,21557,860
21,7044,28959,599
21,5714,36361,474
21,4434,44963,479
21,1294,54465,590
20,7794,64167,800
20,6074,74270,114
20,4854,84572,550
20,3854,95075,138
20,2965,05777,792
20,2245,16780,534
20,1515,27883,368
20,0555,39286,229
19,9385,50789,193
19,8235,62592,209
19,7135,74595,232
19,6225,87498,320
19,4966,025101,499
19,3516,154104,767
19,2666,291108,171

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 Central African Republic, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.