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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	St. Lucia	Romania	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	152	22,414	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	153	22,262	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	154	22,106	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	155	21,931	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	156	21,828	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	157	21,704	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	157	21,571	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	158	21,443	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	159	21,129	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	160	20,779	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	160	20,607	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	161	20,485	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	162	20,385	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	162	20,296	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	163	20,224	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	163	20,151	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	164	20,055	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	164	19,938	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	165	19,823	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	166	19,713	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	166	19,622	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	167	19,496	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	167	19,351	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	167	19,266	5,907

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 St. Lucia, Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.