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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 SenegalRomaniaCongo - Kinshasa
10,07022,41451,181
10,30522,26252,782
10,57622,10654,453
10,86421,93156,170
11,17221,82857,860
11,49821,70459,599
11,83921,57161,474
12,20421,44363,479
12,58421,12965,590
12,97820,77967,800
13,38220,60770,114
13,79420,48572,550
14,22620,38575,138
14,66820,29677,792
15,12120,22480,534
15,58920,15183,368
16,06620,05586,229
16,54919,93889,193
17,04419,82392,209
17,53519,71395,232
18,02119,62298,320
18,51819,496101,499
19,01619,351104,767
19,51219,266108,171

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