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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cyprus	Romania	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	818	22,414	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	826	22,262	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	835	22,106	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	845	21,931	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	855	21,828	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	867	21,704	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	879	21,571	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	894	21,443	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	913	21,129	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	937	20,779	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	962	20,607	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	988	20,485	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	1,013	20,385	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	1,029	20,296	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	1,026	20,224	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	1,015	20,151	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	1,009	20,055	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	1,014	19,938	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	1,023	19,823	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	1,036	19,713	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	1,050	19,622	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	1,062	19,496	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	1,072	19,351	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	1,087	19,266	3,228

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 Cyprus, Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.