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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Djibouti	Romania	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	646	22,414	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	669	22,262	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	693	22,106	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	716	21,931	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	691	21,828	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	657	21,704	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	666	21,571	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	679	21,443	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	694	21,129	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	709	20,779	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	725	20,607	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	741	20,485	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	757	20,385	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	774	20,296	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	792	20,224	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	810	20,151	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	828	20,055	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	847	19,938	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	865	19,823	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	884	19,713	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	898	19,622	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	912	19,496	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	924	19,351	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	937	19,266	6,291

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 Djibouti, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.