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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	North Korea	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	277	22,594	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	281	22,785	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	285	22,977	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	288	23,165	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	289	23,330	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	293	23,477	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	296	23,621	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	304	23,764	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	311	23,908	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	319	24,051	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	319	24,191	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	318	24,326	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	319	24,457	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	321	24,589	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	324	24,720	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	327	24,852	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	331	24,983	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	335	25,115	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	343	25,248	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	353	25,381	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	361	25,497	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	366	25,608	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	372	25,711	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	380	25,808	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.

North Korea

1911-1940: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing.
1990-2011: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing.

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.