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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Romania	Senegal
Dec 31, 1999	277	22,414	10,070
Dec 31, 2000	281	22,262	10,305
Dec 31, 2001	285	22,106	10,576
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,931	10,864
Dec 31, 2003	289	21,828	11,172
Dec 31, 2004	293	21,704	11,498
Dec 31, 2005	296	21,571	11,839
Dec 31, 2006	304	21,443	12,204
Dec 31, 2007	311	21,129	12,584
Dec 31, 2008	319	20,779	12,978
Dec 31, 2009	319	20,607	13,382
Dec 31, 2010	318	20,485	13,794
Dec 31, 2011	319	20,385	14,226
Dec 31, 2012	321	20,296	14,668
Dec 31, 2013	324	20,224	15,121
Dec 31, 2014	327	20,151	15,589
Dec 31, 2015	331	20,055	16,066
Dec 31, 2016	335	19,938	16,549
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,823	17,044
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,713	17,535
Dec 31, 2019	361	19,622	18,021
Dec 31, 2020	366	19,496	18,518
Dec 31, 2021	372	19,351	19,016
Dec 31, 2022	380	19,266	19,512

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 Senegal; the database as a whole is cited above.