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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	Oman	Romania	Israel
Dec 31, 1999	70	2,348	22,414	5,927
Dec 31, 2000	71	2,403	22,262	6,088
Dec 31, 2001	71	2,457	22,106	6,236
Dec 31, 2002	72	2,510	21,931	6,366
Dec 31, 2003	72	2,562	21,828	6,484
Dec 31, 2004	72	2,613	21,704	6,603
Dec 31, 2005	72	2,663	21,571	6,723
Dec 31, 2006	72	2,713	21,443	6,846
Dec 31, 2007	72	2,764	21,129	6,972
Dec 31, 2008	73	2,816	20,779	7,100
Dec 31, 2009	73	2,871	20,607	7,226
Dec 31, 2010	73	2,928	20,485	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	73	2,986	20,385	7,498
Dec 31, 2012	73	3,047	20,296	7,637
Dec 31, 2013	73	3,110	20,224	7,781
Dec 31, 2014	73	3,174	20,151	7,931
Dec 31, 2015	74	3,240	20,055	8,091
Dec 31, 2016	74	3,307	19,938	8,251
Dec 31, 2017	74	3,375	19,823	8,412
Dec 31, 2018	74	3,444	19,713	8,576
Dec 31, 2019	75	3,512	19,622	8,742
Dec 31, 2020	75	3,582	19,496	8,899
Dec 31, 2021	76	3,651	19,351	9,047
Dec 31, 2022	76	3,696	19,266	9,188

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.

Israel

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91

No separate list is published for Dominica, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.