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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	Cyprus	Romania	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	818	22,414	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	826	22,262	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	835	22,106	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	845	21,931	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	855	21,828	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	867	21,704	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	879	21,571	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	894	21,443	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	913	21,129	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	937	20,779	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	962	20,607	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	988	20,485	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	1,013	20,385	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	1,029	20,296	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	1,026	20,224	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	1,015	20,151	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	1,009	20,055	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	1,014	19,938	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	1,023	19,823	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	1,036	19,713	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	1,050	19,622	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	1,062	19,496	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	1,072	19,351	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	1,087	19,266	4,713

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.

Lebanon

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Cyprus; the database as a whole is cited above.