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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 SudanCongo - KinshasaRomania
26,16851,18122,414
26,77152,78222,262
27,38754,45322,106
28,01756,17021,931
28,66257,86021,828
29,32159,59921,704
29,99661,47421,571
30,68663,47921,443
31,39365,59021,129
32,13767,80020,779
33,07870,11420,607
33,89172,55020,485
34,56875,13820,385
35,29377,79220,296
36,09380,53420,224
37,05883,36820,151
38,16586,22920,055
39,29489,19319,938
40,51292,20919,823
41,76495,23219,713
42,95298,32019,622
44,121101,49919,496
45,290104,76719,351
46,498108,17119,266

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