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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	Laos	Romania	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	70	5,286	22,414	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	71	5,397	22,262	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	71	5,499	22,106	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	72	5,578	21,931	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	72	5,654	21,828	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	72	5,746	21,704	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	72	5,836	21,571	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	72	5,931	21,443	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	72	6,035	21,129	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	73	6,145	20,779	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	73	6,257	20,607	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	73	6,368	20,485	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	73	6,477	20,385	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	73	6,586	20,296	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	73	6,695	20,224	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	73	6,804	20,151	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	74	6,912	20,055	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	74	7,019	19,938	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	74	7,127	19,823	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	74	7,234	19,713	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	75	7,343	19,622	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	75	7,452	19,496	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	76	7,560	19,351	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	76	7,666	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.

All data sources

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