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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Afghanistan	Romania	Lesotho
Dec 31, 1999	22,206	22,414	1,908
Dec 31, 2000	22,461	22,262	1,916
Dec 31, 2001	22,507	22,106	1,922
Dec 31, 2002	23,600	21,931	1,926
Dec 31, 2003	25,005	21,828	1,926
Dec 31, 2004	25,698	21,704	1,925
Dec 31, 2005	26,335	21,571	1,922
Dec 31, 2006	27,154	21,443	1,919
Dec 31, 2007	27,387	21,129	1,917
Dec 31, 2008	27,706	20,779	1,915
Dec 31, 2009	28,484	20,607	1,916
Dec 31, 2010	29,121	20,485	1,920
Dec 31, 2011	29,758	20,385	1,925
Dec 31, 2012	30,420	20,296	1,930
Dec 31, 2013	31,108	20,224	1,936
Dec 31, 2014	31,823	20,151	1,942
Dec 31, 2015	32,564	20,055	1,948
Dec 31, 2016	33,332	19,938	1,953
Dec 31, 2017	34,125	19,823	1,958
Dec 31, 2018	34,941	19,713	1,962
Dec 31, 2019	35,972	19,622	1,987
Dec 31, 2020	37,034	19,496	2,013
Dec 31, 2021	38,127	19,351	2,037
Dec 31, 2022	39,252	19,266	2,059

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 Afghanistan, Lesotho; the database as a whole is cited above.