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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Egypt	Romania	Bangladesh
Dec 31, 1999	66,001	22,414	132,907
Dec 31, 2000	67,377	22,262	135,207
Dec 31, 2001	68,790	22,106	137,420
Dec 31, 2002	70,269	21,931	139,573
Dec 31, 2003	71,785	21,828	141,650
Dec 31, 2004	73,298	21,704	143,644
Dec 31, 2005	74,832	21,571	145,546
Dec 31, 2006	76,432	21,443	147,376
Dec 31, 2007	78,140	21,129	149,047
Dec 31, 2008	79,945	20,779	150,562
Dec 31, 2009	81,840	20,607	152,189
Dec 31, 2010	83,844	20,485	153,927
Dec 31, 2011	85,969	20,385	155,634
Dec 31, 2012	88,198	20,296	157,326
Dec 31, 2013	90,566	20,224	158,999
Dec 31, 2014	93,009	20,151	160,650
Dec 31, 2015	95,432	20,055	162,273
Dec 31, 2016	97,882	19,938	163,938
Dec 31, 2017	100,303	19,823	165,655
Dec 31, 2018	102,617	19,713	167,358
Dec 31, 2019	104,816	19,622	169,045
Dec 31, 2020	106,893	19,496	170,709
Dec 31, 2021	108,871	19,351	172,354
Dec 31, 2022	110,593	19,266	174,217

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.

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995