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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Estonia	Burkina Faso	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	433	1,378	11,075	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	438	1,400	11,405	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	443	1,391	11,828	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	448	1,382	12,380	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	454	1,374	12,829	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	460	1,365	13,178	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	467	1,357	13,540	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	474	1,349	13,917	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	482	1,341	14,309	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	491	1,337	14,722	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	500	1,334	15,152	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	509	1,332	15,600	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	521	1,328	16,064	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	533	1,324	16,563	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	547	1,319	17,072	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	560	1,314	17,575	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	571	1,312	18,094	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	586	1,314	18,621	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	599	1,314	19,157	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	610	1,318	19,698	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	623	1,323	20,242	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	633	1,327	20,788	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	643	1,329	21,336	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	651	1,330	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.

All data sources

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