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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Egypt	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	66,001	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	67,377	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	68,790	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	70,269	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	71,785	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	73,298	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	74,832	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	76,432	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	78,140	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	79,945	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	81,840	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	83,844	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	85,969	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	88,198	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	90,566	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	93,009	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	95,432	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	97,882	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	100,303	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	102,617	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	104,816	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	106,893	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	108,871	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	110,593	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

Egypt

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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.