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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cape Verde	Paraguay	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	422	5,366	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	430	5,473	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	438	5,579	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	447	5,683	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	455	5,786	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	463	5,886	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	471	5,984	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	478	6,080	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	486	6,173	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	494	6,264	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	501	6,352	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	509	6,438	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	516	6,522	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	524	6,605	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	531	6,688	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	539	6,769	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	546	6,850	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	553	6,930	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	562	7,012	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	568	7,095	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	574	7,179	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	580	7,263	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	585	7,348	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	590	7,432	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, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.