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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 SingaporeCongo - KinshasaRomania
3,95951,18122,414
4,02852,78222,262
4,13854,45322,106
4,17656,17021,931
4,11557,86021,828
4,16759,59921,704
4,26661,47421,571
4,40163,47921,443
4,58965,59021,129
4,83967,80020,779
4,98870,11420,607
5,07772,55020,485
5,18475,13820,385
5,31277,79220,296
5,39980,53420,224
5,47083,36820,151
5,53586,22920,055
5,60789,19319,938
5,61292,20919,823
5,63995,23219,713
5,70498,32019,622
5,686101,49919,496
5,716104,76719,351
5,750108,17119,266

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

Singapore

  • 1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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