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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Romania	Costa Rica
Dec 31, 1999	277	22,414	3,785
Dec 31, 2000	281	22,262	3,867
Dec 31, 2001	285	22,106	3,951
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,931	4,021
Dec 31, 2003	289	21,828	4,079
Dec 31, 2004	293	21,704	4,145
Dec 31, 2005	296	21,571	4,212
Dec 31, 2006	304	21,443	4,278
Dec 31, 2007	311	21,129	4,338
Dec 31, 2008	319	20,779	4,400
Dec 31, 2009	319	20,607	4,467
Dec 31, 2010	318	20,485	4,544
Dec 31, 2011	319	20,385	4,587
Dec 31, 2012	321	20,296	4,648
Dec 31, 2013	324	20,224	4,707
Dec 31, 2014	327	20,151	4,768
Dec 31, 2015	331	20,055	4,827
Dec 31, 2016	335	19,938	4,885
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,823	4,942
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,713	4,998
Dec 31, 2019	361	19,622	5,052
Dec 31, 2020	366	19,496	5,105
Dec 31, 2021	372	19,351	5,158
Dec 31, 2022	380	19,266	5,185

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 Costa Rica; the database as a whole is cited above.