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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	Romania	Turkmenistan
Dec 31, 1999	422	22,414	4,324
Dec 31, 2000	430	22,262	4,385
Dec 31, 2001	438	22,106	4,444
Dec 31, 2002	447	21,931	4,502
Dec 31, 2003	455	21,828	4,556
Dec 31, 2004	463	21,704	4,608
Dec 31, 2005	471	21,571	4,664
Dec 31, 2006	478	21,443	4,719
Dec 31, 2007	486	21,129	4,773
Dec 31, 2008	494	20,779	4,828
Dec 31, 2009	501	20,607	4,884
Dec 31, 2010	509	20,485	4,940
Dec 31, 2011	516	20,385	4,996
Dec 31, 2012	524	20,296	5,053
Dec 31, 2013	531	20,224	5,110
Dec 31, 2014	539	20,151	5,169
Dec 31, 2015	546	20,055	5,227
Dec 31, 2016	553	19,938	5,287
Dec 31, 2017	562	19,823	5,346
Dec 31, 2018	568	19,713	5,405
Dec 31, 2019	574	19,622	5,464
Dec 31, 2020	580	19,496	5,522
Dec 31, 2021	585	19,351	5,579
Dec 31, 2022	590	19,266	5,657

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