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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Afghanistan	Romania	Slovenia
Dec 31, 1999	22,206	22,414	1,998
Dec 31, 2000	22,461	22,262	2,004
Dec 31, 2001	22,507	22,106	2,006
Dec 31, 2002	23,600	21,931	2,009
Dec 31, 2003	25,005	21,828	2,010
Dec 31, 2004	25,698	21,704	2,011
Dec 31, 2005	26,335	21,571	2,015
Dec 31, 2006	27,154	21,443	2,022
Dec 31, 2007	27,387	21,129	2,033
Dec 31, 2008	27,706	20,779	2,036
Dec 31, 2009	28,484	20,607	2,056
Dec 31, 2010	29,121	20,485	2,063
Dec 31, 2011	29,758	20,385	2,067
Dec 31, 2012	30,420	20,296	2,071
Dec 31, 2013	31,108	20,224	2,074
Dec 31, 2014	31,823	20,151	2,076
Dec 31, 2015	32,564	20,055	2,078
Dec 31, 2016	33,332	19,938	2,079
Dec 31, 2017	34,125	19,823	2,081
Dec 31, 2018	34,941	19,713	2,087
Dec 31, 2019	35,972	19,622	2,104
Dec 31, 2020	37,034	19,496	2,118
Dec 31, 2021	38,127	19,351	2,123
Dec 31, 2022	39,252	19,266	2,124

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.

Slovenia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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