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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Romania	Afghanistan
Dec 31, 1999	277	22,414	22,206
Dec 31, 2000	281	22,262	22,461
Dec 31, 2001	285	22,106	22,507
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,931	23,600
Dec 31, 2003	289	21,828	25,005
Dec 31, 2004	293	21,704	25,698
Dec 31, 2005	296	21,571	26,335
Dec 31, 2006	304	21,443	27,154
Dec 31, 2007	311	21,129	27,387
Dec 31, 2008	319	20,779	27,706
Dec 31, 2009	319	20,607	28,484
Dec 31, 2010	318	20,485	29,121
Dec 31, 2011	319	20,385	29,758
Dec 31, 2012	321	20,296	30,420
Dec 31, 2013	324	20,224	31,108
Dec 31, 2014	327	20,151	31,823
Dec 31, 2015	331	20,055	32,564
Dec 31, 2016	335	19,938	33,332
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,823	34,125
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,713	34,941
Dec 31, 2019	361	19,622	35,972
Dec 31, 2020	366	19,496	37,034
Dec 31, 2021	372	19,351	38,127
Dec 31, 2022	380	19,266	39,252

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 Afghanistan; the database as a whole is cited above.