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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ghana	Romania	Mali
Dec 31, 1999	19,327	22,414	10,596
Dec 31, 2000	19,792	22,262	10,833
Dec 31, 2001	20,280	22,106	10,890
Dec 31, 2002	20,806	21,931	11,007
Dec 31, 2003	21,350	21,828	11,307
Dec 31, 2004	21,900	21,704	11,579
Dec 31, 2005	22,469	21,571	11,804
Dec 31, 2006	23,058	21,443	12,043
Dec 31, 2007	23,661	21,129	12,337
Dec 31, 2008	24,270	20,779	12,657
Dec 31, 2009	24,899	20,607	12,986
Dec 31, 2010	25,559	20,485	13,325
Dec 31, 2011	26,244	20,385	13,679
Dec 31, 2012	26,945	20,296	14,040
Dec 31, 2013	27,664	20,224	14,412
Dec 31, 2014	28,405	20,151	14,803
Dec 31, 2015	29,146	20,055	15,210
Dec 31, 2016	29,879	19,938	15,629
Dec 31, 2017	30,617	19,823	16,060
Dec 31, 2018	31,362	19,713	16,507
Dec 31, 2019	32,111	19,622	16,967
Dec 31, 2020	32,864	19,496	17,442
Dec 31, 2021	33,622	19,351	17,930
Dec 31, 2022	34,280	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

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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 Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.