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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Egypt	Romania	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	66,001	22,414	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	67,377	22,262	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	68,790	22,106	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	70,269	21,931	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	71,785	21,828	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	73,298	21,704	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	74,832	21,571	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	76,432	21,443	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	78,140	21,129	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	79,945	20,779	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	81,840	20,607	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	83,844	20,485	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	85,969	20,385	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	88,198	20,296	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	90,566	20,224	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	93,009	20,151	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	95,432	20,055	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	97,882	19,938	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	100,303	19,823	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	102,617	19,713	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	104,816	19,622	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	106,893	19,496	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	108,871	19,351	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	110,593	19,266	6,291

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.

No separate list is published for Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.