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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Afghanistan	Romania	Ghana
Dec 31, 1999	22,206	22,414	19,327
Dec 31, 2000	22,461	22,262	19,792
Dec 31, 2001	22,507	22,106	20,280
Dec 31, 2002	23,600	21,931	20,806
Dec 31, 2003	25,005	21,828	21,350
Dec 31, 2004	25,698	21,704	21,900
Dec 31, 2005	26,335	21,571	22,469
Dec 31, 2006	27,154	21,443	23,058
Dec 31, 2007	27,387	21,129	23,661
Dec 31, 2008	27,706	20,779	24,270
Dec 31, 2009	28,484	20,607	24,899
Dec 31, 2010	29,121	20,485	25,559
Dec 31, 2011	29,758	20,385	26,244
Dec 31, 2012	30,420	20,296	26,945
Dec 31, 2013	31,108	20,224	27,664
Dec 31, 2014	31,823	20,151	28,405
Dec 31, 2015	32,564	20,055	29,146
Dec 31, 2016	33,332	19,938	29,879
Dec 31, 2017	34,125	19,823	30,617
Dec 31, 2018	34,941	19,713	31,362
Dec 31, 2019	35,972	19,622	32,111
Dec 31, 2020	37,034	19,496	32,864
Dec 31, 2021	38,127	19,351	33,622
Dec 31, 2022	39,252	19,266	34,280

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.

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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