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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Indonesia	Romania	Finland
Dec 31, 1999	208,105	22,414	5,166
Dec 31, 2000	211,408	22,262	5,176
Dec 31, 2001	214,475	22,106	5,188
Dec 31, 2002	217,516	21,931	5,201
Dec 31, 2003	220,549	21,828	5,213
Dec 31, 2004	224,473	21,704	5,228
Dec 31, 2005	227,534	21,571	5,246
Dec 31, 2006	230,739	21,443	5,266
Dec 31, 2007	233,918	21,129	5,289
Dec 31, 2008	237,056	20,779	5,313
Dec 31, 2009	240,140	20,607	5,339
Dec 31, 2010	243,171	20,485	5,363
Dec 31, 2011	246,150	20,385	5,388
Dec 31, 2012	249,086	20,296	5,414
Dec 31, 2013	251,947	20,224	5,439
Dec 31, 2014	254,702	20,151	5,463
Dec 31, 2015	257,351	20,055	5,481
Dec 31, 2016	259,906	19,938	5,495
Dec 31, 2017	262,379	19,823	5,508
Dec 31, 2018	264,789	19,713	5,516
Dec 31, 2019	267,142	19,622	5,522
Dec 31, 2020	269,437	19,496	5,531
Dec 31, 2021	271,674	19,351	5,542
Dec 31, 2022	273,409	19,266	5,556

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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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.

Finland

1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.