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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	China	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	1,248,899	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	1,258,401	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	1,267,178	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	1,275,379	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	1,283,064	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	1,290,620	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	1,298,245	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	1,305,116	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	1,311,877	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	1,318,559	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	1,324,993	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	1,331,357	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	1,339,549	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	1,349,537	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	1,357,520	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	1,366,654	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	1,373,406	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	1,382,401	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	1,390,136	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	1,395,398	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	1,400,035	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	1,402,060	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	1,402,537	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	1,401,693	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.

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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

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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.