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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Haiti	Romania	Benin
Dec 31, 1999	8,121	22,414	6,461
Dec 31, 2000	8,279	22,262	6,677
Dec 31, 2001	8,430	22,106	6,902
Dec 31, 2002	8,580	21,931	7,130
Dec 31, 2003	8,739	21,828	7,360
Dec 31, 2004	8,900	21,704	7,589
Dec 31, 2005	9,061	21,571	7,838
Dec 31, 2006	9,216	21,443	8,089
Dec 31, 2007	9,364	21,129	8,335
Dec 31, 2008	9,508	20,779	8,603
Dec 31, 2009	9,652	20,607	8,884
Dec 31, 2010	9,553	20,485	9,179
Dec 31, 2011	9,670	20,385	9,486
Dec 31, 2012	9,793	20,296	9,805
Dec 31, 2013	9,922	20,224	10,135
Dec 31, 2014	10,047	20,151	10,480
Dec 31, 2015	10,254	20,055	10,842
Dec 31, 2016	10,486	19,938	11,220
Dec 31, 2017	10,647	19,823	11,613
Dec 31, 2018	10,788	19,713	12,018
Dec 31, 2019	10,933	19,622	12,370
Dec 31, 2020	11,077	19,496	12,725
Dec 31, 2021	11,215	19,351	13,081
Dec 31, 2022	11,349	19,266	13,439

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 Haiti, Benin; the database as a whole is cited above.