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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Romania	São Tomé & Príncipe
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	22,414	138
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	22,262	141
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	22,106	144
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	21,931	147
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	21,828	151
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	21,704	154
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	21,571	158
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	21,443	161
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	21,129	165
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	20,779	168
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	20,607	172
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	20,485	176
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	20,385	180
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	20,296	183
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	20,224	187
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	20,151	190
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	20,055	194
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	19,938	198
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	19,823	201
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	19,713	204
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	19,622	208
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	19,496	212
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	19,351	216
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	19,266	220

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

Argentina

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

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 São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.