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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iraq	Romania	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	22,076	22,414	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	22,748	22,262	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	23,440	22,106	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	24,212	21,931	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	24,979	21,828	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	25,726	21,704	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	26,531	21,571	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	26,706	21,443	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	26,429	21,129	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	26,969	20,779	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	28,024	20,607	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	28,956	20,485	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	29,974	20,385	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	31,321	20,296	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	32,779	20,224	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	33,857	20,151	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	34,674	20,055	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	35,437	19,938	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	36,200	19,823	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	37,015	19,713	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	37,846	19,622	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	38,673	19,496	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	39,491	19,351	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	40,364	19,266	5,907

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

Iraq

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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 Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.