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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 RomaniaCameroonCongo - Kinshasa
22,41415,48351,181
22,26215,91352,782
22,10616,35454,453
21,93116,81556,170
21,82817,28957,860
21,70417,76459,599
21,57118,24961,474
21,44318,74663,479
21,12919,27865,590
20,77919,84367,800
20,60720,41970,114
20,48521,00272,550
20,38521,58675,138
20,29622,18177,792
20,22422,80080,534
20,15123,51383,368
20,05524,27386,229
19,93824,99589,193
19,82325,68092,209
19,71326,37395,232
19,62227,11498,320
19,49627,878101,499
19,35128,663104,767
19,26629,417108,171

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 Cameroon, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.