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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	Romania	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	70	22,414	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	71	22,262	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	71	22,106	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	72	21,931	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	72	21,828	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	72	21,704	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	72	21,571	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	72	21,443	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	72	21,129	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	73	20,779	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	73	20,607	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	73	20,485	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	73	20,385	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	73	20,296	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	73	20,224	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	73	20,151	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	74	20,055	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	74	19,938	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	74	19,823	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	74	19,713	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	75	19,622	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	75	19,496	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	76	19,351	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	76	19,266	21,889

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, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.