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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Iraq	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	277	22,076	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	281	22,748	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	285	23,440	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	288	24,212	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	289	24,979	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	293	25,726	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	296	26,531	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	304	26,706	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	311	26,429	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	319	26,969	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	319	28,024	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	318	28,956	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	319	29,974	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	321	31,321	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	324	32,779	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	327	33,857	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	331	34,674	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	335	35,437	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	343	36,200	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	353	37,015	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	361	37,846	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,673	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	372	39,491	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	380	40,364	19,266

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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.