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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 SudanRomaniaIran
26,16822,41464,704
26,77122,26265,411
27,38722,10666,167
28,01721,93166,689
28,66221,82867,807
29,32121,70468,480
29,99621,57169,325
30,68621,44370,158
31,39321,12971,040
32,13720,77971,942
33,07820,60772,888
33,89120,48573,826
34,56820,38574,625
35,29320,29675,446
36,09320,22476,418
37,05820,15177,521
38,16520,05578,652
39,29419,93879,700
40,51219,82380,725
41,76419,71381,721
42,95219,62282,685
44,12119,49683,614
45,29019,35184,505
46,49819,26685,108

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.

Iran

  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.