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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Spain	Burkina Faso	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	40,378	11,075	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	40,563	11,405	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	40,775	11,828	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	41,433	12,380	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	42,205	12,829	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	42,869	13,178	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	43,672	13,540	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	44,370	13,917	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	45,246	14,309	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	45,993	14,722	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	46,378	15,152	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	46,573	15,600	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	46,746	16,064	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	46,777	16,563	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	46,603	17,072	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	46,465	17,575	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	46,420	18,094	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	46,460	18,621	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	46,543	19,157	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	46,739	19,698	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	47,116	20,242	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	47,366	20,788	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	47,342	21,336	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	47,625	21,889	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.

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

Spain

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
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

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 Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.