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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	Yemen	Romania	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	70	16,728	22,414	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	71	17,236	22,262	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	71	17,762	22,106	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	72	18,310	21,931	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	72	18,855	21,828	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	72	19,410	21,704	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	72	20,000	21,571	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	72	20,611	21,443	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	72	21,236	21,129	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	73	21,878	20,779	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	73	22,533	20,607	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	73	23,195	20,485	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	73	23,880	20,385	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	73	24,594	20,296	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	73	25,311	20,224	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	73	26,020	20,151	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	74	26,698	20,055	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	74	27,347	19,938	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	74	27,985	19,823	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	74	28,608	19,713	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	75	29,216	19,622	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	75	29,811	19,496	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	76	30,399	19,351	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	76	31,058	19,266	3,570

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, Yemen, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.