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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 RomaniaNorwayCongo - Kinshasa
22,4144,46351,181
22,2624,49252,782
22,1064,51554,453
21,9314,53956,170
21,8284,56657,860
21,7044,59359,599
21,5714,62461,474
21,4434,66263,479
21,1294,71065,590
20,7794,76967,800
20,6074,83070,114
20,4854,89072,550
20,3854,95475,138
20,2965,02077,792
20,2245,08180,534
20,1515,13883,368
20,0555,19186,229
19,9385,23789,193
19,8235,27892,209
19,7135,31395,232
19,6225,34998,320
19,4965,380101,499
19,3515,409104,767
19,2665,458108,171

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.

Norway

  • 1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
  • 1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.