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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cambodia	Romania	Mauritania
Dec 31, 1999	12,122	22,414	2,437
Dec 31, 2000	12,317	22,262	2,501
Dec 31, 2001	12,504	22,106	2,566
Dec 31, 2002	12,691	21,931	2,632
Dec 31, 2003	12,881	21,828	2,699
Dec 31, 2004	13,076	21,704	2,768
Dec 31, 2005	13,276	21,571	2,838
Dec 31, 2006	13,461	21,443	2,909
Dec 31, 2007	13,630	21,129	2,981
Dec 31, 2008	13,808	20,779	3,055
Dec 31, 2009	13,990	20,607	3,129
Dec 31, 2010	14,162	20,485	3,205
Dec 31, 2011	14,322	20,385	3,282
Dec 31, 2012	14,480	20,296	3,359
Dec 31, 2013	14,637	20,224	3,438
Dec 31, 2014	14,793	20,151	3,517
Dec 31, 2015	14,994	20,055	3,597
Dec 31, 2016	15,238	19,938	3,677
Dec 31, 2017	15,480	19,823	3,759
Dec 31, 2018	15,717	19,713	3,840
Dec 31, 2019	15,944	19,622	3,942
Dec 31, 2020	16,149	19,496	4,045
Dec 31, 2021	16,338	19,351	4,150
Dec 31, 2022	16,514	19,266	4,259

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, Mauritania; the database as a whole is cited above.