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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Côte d’Ivoire	Romania	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	17,106	22,414	627
Dec 31, 2000	17,552	22,262	659
Dec 31, 2001	18,010	22,106	691
Dec 31, 2002	18,438	21,931	724
Dec 31, 2003	18,895	21,828	757
Dec 31, 2004	19,432	21,704	850
Dec 31, 2005	19,968	21,571	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	20,512	21,443	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	21,097	21,129	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	21,699	20,779	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	22,285	20,607	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	22,845	20,485	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	23,343	20,385	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	23,879	20,296	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	24,492	20,224	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	25,104	20,151	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	25,719	20,055	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	26,348	19,938	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	26,984	19,823	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	27,614	19,713	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	28,252	19,622	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	28,895	19,496	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	29,546	19,351	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	30,279	19,266	2,559

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.

No separate list is published for Côte d’Ivoire, Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.