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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cape Verde	Romania	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	422	22,414	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	430	22,262	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	438	22,106	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	447	21,931	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	455	21,828	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	463	21,704	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	471	21,571	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	478	21,443	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	486	21,129	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	494	20,779	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	501	20,607	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	509	20,485	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	516	20,385	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	524	20,296	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	531	20,224	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	539	20,151	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	546	20,055	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	553	19,938	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	562	19,823	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	568	19,713	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	574	19,622	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	580	19,496	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	585	19,351	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	590	19,266	7,666

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, Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.