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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cambodia	Burkina Faso	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	12,122	11,075	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	12,317	11,405	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	12,504	11,828	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	12,691	12,380	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	12,881	12,829	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	13,076	13,178	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	13,276	13,540	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	13,461	13,917	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	13,630	14,309	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	13,808	14,722	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	13,990	15,152	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	14,162	15,600	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	14,322	16,064	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	14,480	16,563	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	14,637	17,072	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	14,793	17,575	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	14,994	18,094	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	15,238	18,621	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	15,480	19,157	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	15,717	19,698	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	15,944	20,242	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	16,149	20,788	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	16,338	21,336	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	16,514	21,889	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

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 Cambodia, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.