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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	Romania	Burkina Faso	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	433	22,414	11,075	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	438	22,262	11,405	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	443	22,106	11,828	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	448	21,931	12,380	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	454	21,828	12,829	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	460	21,704	13,178	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	467	21,571	13,540	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	474	21,443	13,917	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	482	21,129	14,309	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	491	20,779	14,722	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	500	20,607	15,152	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	509	20,485	15,600	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	521	20,385	16,064	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	533	20,296	16,563	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	547	20,224	17,072	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	560	20,151	17,575	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	571	20,055	18,094	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	586	19,938	18,621	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	599	19,823	19,157	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	610	19,713	19,698	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	623	19,622	20,242	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	633	19,496	20,788	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	643	19,351	21,336	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	651	19,266	21,889	31,058

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