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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	Romania	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	22,414	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	22,262	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	22,106	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	21,931	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	21,828	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	21,704	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	21,571	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	21,443	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	21,129	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	20,779	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	20,607	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	20,485	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	20,385	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	20,296	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	20,224	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	20,151	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	20,055	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	19,938	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	19,823	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	19,713	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	19,622	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	19,496	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	19,351	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	19,266	110,593

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

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

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.

Egypt

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828