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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	Romania	São Tomé & Príncipe
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	22,414	138
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	22,262	141
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	22,106	144
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	21,931	147
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	21,828	151
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	21,704	154
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	21,571	158
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	21,443	161
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	21,129	165
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	20,779	168
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	20,607	172
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	20,485	176
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	20,385	180
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	20,296	183
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	20,224	187
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	20,151	190
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	20,055	194
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	19,938	198
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	19,823	201
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	19,713	204
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	19,622	208
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	19,496	212
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	19,351	216
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	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

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.

No separate list is published for São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.