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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Spain	Romania	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	40,378	22,414	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	40,563	22,262	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	40,775	22,106	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	41,433	21,931	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	42,205	21,828	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	42,869	21,704	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	43,672	21,571	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	44,370	21,443	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	45,246	21,129	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	45,993	20,779	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	46,378	20,607	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	46,573	20,485	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	46,746	20,385	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	46,777	20,296	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	46,603	20,224	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	46,465	20,151	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	46,420	20,055	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	46,460	19,938	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	46,543	19,823	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	46,739	19,713	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	47,116	19,622	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	47,366	19,496	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	47,342	19,351	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	47,625	19,266	146,693

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

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.

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.