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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Romania	Madagascar
Dec 31, 1999	277	22,414	15,259
Dec 31, 2000	281	22,262	15,707
Dec 31, 2001	285	22,106	16,162
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,931	16,631
Dec 31, 2003	289	21,828	17,114
Dec 31, 2004	293	21,704	17,610
Dec 31, 2005	296	21,571	18,120
Dec 31, 2006	304	21,443	18,641
Dec 31, 2007	311	21,129	19,173
Dec 31, 2008	319	20,779	19,717
Dec 31, 2009	319	20,607	20,272
Dec 31, 2010	318	20,485	20,837
Dec 31, 2011	319	20,385	21,413
Dec 31, 2012	321	20,296	21,999
Dec 31, 2013	324	20,224	22,593
Dec 31, 2014	327	20,151	23,196
Dec 31, 2015	331	20,055	23,806
Dec 31, 2016	335	19,938	24,423
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,823	25,044
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,713	25,671
Dec 31, 2019	361	19,622	26,302
Dec 31, 2020	366	19,496	26,936
Dec 31, 2021	372	19,351	27,573
Dec 31, 2022	380	19,266	28,237

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 Madagascar; the database as a whole is cited above.