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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	Dominica	Ethiopia	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	70	63,575	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	71	65,213	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	71	66,889	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	72	68,649	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	72	70,491	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	72	72,389	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	72	74,327	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	72	76,326	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	72	78,411	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	73	80,564	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	73	82,787	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	73	85,096	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	73	87,530	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	73	90,066	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	73	92,632	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	73	95,337	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	74	98,114	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	74	100,858	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	74	103,654	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	74	106,466	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	75	109,267	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	75	112,100	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	76	114,964	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	76	117,924	19,266

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 Dominica, Ethiopia; the database as a whole is cited above.