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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Brazil	Romania	Namibia
Dec 31, 1999	174,320	22,414	1,841
Dec 31, 2000	176,902	22,262	1,893
Dec 31, 2001	179,389	22,106	1,945
Dec 31, 2002	181,721	21,931	1,981
Dec 31, 2003	183,970	21,828	2,008
Dec 31, 2004	186,165	21,704	2,034
Dec 31, 2005	188,330	21,571	2,060
Dec 31, 2006	190,438	21,443	2,086
Dec 31, 2007	192,450	21,129	2,113
Dec 31, 2008	194,458	20,779	2,141
Dec 31, 2009	196,464	20,607	2,170
Dec 31, 2010	198,408	20,485	2,201
Dec 31, 2011	200,152	20,385	2,232
Dec 31, 2012	201,894	20,296	2,268
Dec 31, 2013	203,614	20,224	2,312
Dec 31, 2014	205,358	20,151	2,360
Dec 31, 2015	207,148	20,055	2,408
Dec 31, 2016	208,859	19,938	2,456
Dec 31, 2017	210,537	19,823	2,505
Dec 31, 2018	212,258	19,713	2,554
Dec 31, 2019	213,940	19,622	2,602
Dec 31, 2020	215,577	19,496	2,651
Dec 31, 2021	216,720	19,351	2,700
Dec 31, 2022	217,718	19,266	2,739

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

Brazil

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)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

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 Namibia; the database as a whole is cited above.