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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Afghanistan	Romania	France
Dec 31, 1999	22,206	22,414	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	22,461	22,262	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	22,507	22,106	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	23,600	21,931	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	25,005	21,828	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	25,698	21,704	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	26,335	21,571	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	27,154	21,443	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	27,387	21,129	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	27,706	20,779	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	28,484	20,607	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	29,121	20,485	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	29,758	20,385	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	30,420	20,296	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	31,108	20,224	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	31,823	20,151	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	32,564	20,055	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	33,332	19,938	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	34,125	19,823	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	34,941	19,713	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	35,972	19,622	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	37,034	19,496	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	38,127	19,351	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	39,252	19,266	68,387

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.

France

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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