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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cameroon	Romania	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	15,483	22,414	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	15,913	22,262	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	16,354	22,106	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	16,815	21,931	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	17,289	21,828	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	17,764	21,704	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	18,249	21,571	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	18,746	21,443	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	19,278	21,129	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	19,843	20,779	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	20,419	20,607	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	21,002	20,485	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	21,586	20,385	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	22,181	20,296	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	22,800	20,224	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	23,513	20,151	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	24,273	20,055	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	24,995	19,938	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	25,680	19,823	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	26,373	19,713	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	27,114	19,622	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	27,878	19,496	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	28,663	19,351	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	29,417	19,266	146,693

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.

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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