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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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