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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Cambodia	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	277	12,122	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	281	12,317	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	285	12,504	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,691	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	289	12,881	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,076	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,276	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,461	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	311	13,630	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	319	13,808	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	319	13,990	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	318	14,162	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	319	14,322	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	321	14,480	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	324	14,637	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	327	14,793	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	331	14,994	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	335	15,238	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	343	15,480	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	353	15,717	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	361	15,944	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	366	16,149	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	372	16,338	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	380	16,514	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.

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 Cambodia; the database as a whole is cited above.