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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cameroon	Burkina Faso	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	15,483	11,075	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	15,913	11,405	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	16,354	11,828	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	16,815	12,380	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	17,289	12,829	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	17,764	13,178	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	18,249	13,540	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	18,746	13,917	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	19,278	14,309	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	19,843	14,722	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	20,419	15,152	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	21,002	15,600	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	21,586	16,064	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	22,181	16,563	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	22,800	17,072	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	23,513	17,575	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	24,273	18,094	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	24,995	18,621	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	25,680	19,157	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	26,373	19,698	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	27,114	20,242	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	27,878	20,788	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	28,663	21,336	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	29,417	21,889	19,266

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.

All data sources

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 Cameroon, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.