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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	São Tomé & Príncipe	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	138	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	141	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	144	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	147	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	151	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	154	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	158	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	161	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	165	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	168	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	172	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	176	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	180	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	183	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	187	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	190	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	194	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	198	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	201	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	204	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	208	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	212	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	216	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	220	19,266

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

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.

No separate list is published for São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.