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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Romania	Hungary
Dec 31, 1999	433	22,414	10,244
Dec 31, 2000	438	22,262	10,218
Dec 31, 2001	443	22,106	10,194
Dec 31, 2002	448	21,931	10,165
Dec 31, 2003	454	21,828	10,136
Dec 31, 2004	460	21,704	10,114
Dec 31, 2005	467	21,571	10,094
Dec 31, 2006	474	21,443	10,078
Dec 31, 2007	482	21,129	10,062
Dec 31, 2008	491	20,779	10,045
Dec 31, 2009	500	20,607	10,029
Dec 31, 2010	509	20,485	10,007
Dec 31, 2011	521	20,385	9,978
Dec 31, 2012	533	20,296	9,927
Dec 31, 2013	547	20,224	9,900
Dec 31, 2014	560	20,151	9,873
Dec 31, 2015	571	20,055	9,850
Dec 31, 2016	586	19,938	9,821
Dec 31, 2017	599	19,823	9,794
Dec 31, 2018	610	19,713	9,782
Dec 31, 2019	623	19,622	9,778
Dec 31, 2020	633	19,496	9,757
Dec 31, 2021	643	19,351	9,716
Dec 31, 2022	651	19,266	9,690

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.

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

No separate list is published for Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.