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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ethiopia	Romania	Mali
Dec 31, 1999	63,575	22,414	10,596
Dec 31, 2000	65,213	22,262	10,833
Dec 31, 2001	66,889	22,106	10,890
Dec 31, 2002	68,649	21,931	11,007
Dec 31, 2003	70,491	21,828	11,307
Dec 31, 2004	72,389	21,704	11,579
Dec 31, 2005	74,327	21,571	11,804
Dec 31, 2006	76,326	21,443	12,043
Dec 31, 2007	78,411	21,129	12,337
Dec 31, 2008	80,564	20,779	12,657
Dec 31, 2009	82,787	20,607	12,986
Dec 31, 2010	85,096	20,485	13,325
Dec 31, 2011	87,530	20,385	13,679
Dec 31, 2012	90,066	20,296	14,040
Dec 31, 2013	92,632	20,224	14,412
Dec 31, 2014	95,337	20,151	14,803
Dec 31, 2015	98,114	20,055	15,210
Dec 31, 2016	100,858	19,938	15,629
Dec 31, 2017	103,654	19,823	16,060
Dec 31, 2018	106,466	19,713	16,507
Dec 31, 2019	109,267	19,622	16,967
Dec 31, 2020	112,100	19,496	17,442
Dec 31, 2021	114,964	19,351	17,930
Dec 31, 2022	117,924	19,266	18,494

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

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 Ethiopia, Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.