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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Lesotho	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	277	1,908	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	281	1,916	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	285	1,922	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	288	1,926	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	289	1,926	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	293	1,925	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	296	1,922	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	304	1,919	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	311	1,917	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	319	1,915	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	319	1,916	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	318	1,920	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	319	1,925	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	321	1,930	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	324	1,936	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	327	1,942	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	331	1,948	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	335	1,953	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	343	1,958	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	353	1,962	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	361	1,987	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	366	2,013	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	372	2,037	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	380	2,059	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 Lesotho; the database as a whole is cited above.