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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	Ecuador	Oman	Romania	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	2,348	22,414	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	2,403	22,262	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	2,457	22,106	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	2,510	21,931	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	2,562	21,828	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	2,613	21,704	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	2,663	21,571	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	2,713	21,443	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	2,764	21,129	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	2,816	20,779	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	2,871	20,607	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	2,928	20,485	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	2,986	20,385	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	3,047	20,296	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	3,110	20,224	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	3,174	20,151	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	3,240	20,055	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	3,307	19,938	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	3,375	19,823	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	3,444	19,713	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	3,512	19,622	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	3,582	19,496	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	3,651	19,351	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	3,696	19,266	3,876

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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