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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cameroon	Romania	Chile
Dec 31, 1999	15,483	22,414	15,140
Dec 31, 2000	15,913	22,262	15,340
Dec 31, 2001	16,354	22,106	15,513
Dec 31, 2002	16,815	21,931	15,686
Dec 31, 2003	17,289	21,828	15,859
Dec 31, 2004	17,764	21,704	16,029
Dec 31, 2005	18,249	21,571	16,222
Dec 31, 2006	18,746	21,443	16,364
Dec 31, 2007	19,278	21,129	16,536
Dec 31, 2008	19,843	20,779	16,700
Dec 31, 2009	20,419	20,607	16,864
Dec 31, 2010	21,002	20,485	16,999
Dec 31, 2011	21,586	20,385	17,189
Dec 31, 2012	22,181	20,296	17,378
Dec 31, 2013	22,800	20,224	17,545
Dec 31, 2014	23,513	20,151	17,720
Dec 31, 2015	24,273	20,055	17,904
Dec 31, 2016	24,995	19,938	18,099
Dec 31, 2017	25,680	19,823	18,350
Dec 31, 2018	26,373	19,713	18,681
Dec 31, 2019	27,114	19,622	19,035
Dec 31, 2020	27,878	19,496	19,385
Dec 31, 2021	28,663	19,351	19,604
Dec 31, 2022	29,417	19,266	19,715

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.

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

No separate list is published for Cameroon; the database as a whole is cited above.