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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	France	Romania	Afghanistan
Dec 31, 1999	60,396	22,414	22,206
Dec 31, 2000	60,811	22,262	22,461
Dec 31, 2001	61,255	22,106	22,507
Dec 31, 2002	61,703	21,931	23,600
Dec 31, 2003	62,141	21,828	25,005
Dec 31, 2004	62,600	21,704	25,698
Dec 31, 2005	63,073	21,571	26,335
Dec 31, 2006	63,513	21,443	27,154
Dec 31, 2007	63,906	21,129	27,387
Dec 31, 2008	64,264	20,779	27,706
Dec 31, 2009	64,594	20,607	28,484
Dec 31, 2010	64,913	20,485	29,121
Dec 31, 2011	65,231	20,385	29,758
Dec 31, 2012	65,552	20,296	30,420
Dec 31, 2013	65,891	20,224	31,108
Dec 31, 2014	66,212	20,151	31,823
Dec 31, 2015	66,480	20,055	32,564
Dec 31, 2016	66,730	19,938	33,332
Dec 31, 2017	67,015	19,823	34,125
Dec 31, 2018	67,347	19,713	34,941
Dec 31, 2019	67,660	19,622	35,972
Dec 31, 2020	67,901	19,496	37,034
Dec 31, 2021	68,114	19,351	38,127
Dec 31, 2022	68,387	19,266	39,252

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

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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 Afghanistan; the database as a whole is cited above.