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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cape Verde	Moldova	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	422	4,244	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	430	4,199	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	438	4,154	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	447	4,108	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	455	4,059	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	463	4,013	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	471	3,966	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	478	3,919	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	486	3,873	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	494	3,829	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	501	3,788	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	509	3,748	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	516	3,709	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	524	3,671	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	531	3,633	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	539	3,595	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	546	3,558	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	553	3,522	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	562	3,485	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	568	3,448	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	574	3,412	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	580	3,376	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	585	3,339	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	590	3,570	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

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 Cape Verde, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.