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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Romania	Latvia
Dec 31, 1999	433	22,414	2,386
Dec 31, 2000	438	22,262	2,363
Dec 31, 2001	443	22,106	2,333
Dec 31, 2002	448	21,931	2,306
Dec 31, 2003	454	21,828	2,284
Dec 31, 2004	460	21,704	2,259
Dec 31, 2005	467	21,571	2,235
Dec 31, 2006	474	21,443	2,215
Dec 31, 2007	482	21,129	2,197
Dec 31, 2008	491	20,779	2,174
Dec 31, 2009	500	20,607	2,138
Dec 31, 2010	509	20,485	2,093
Dec 31, 2011	521	20,385	2,055
Dec 31, 2012	533	20,296	2,030
Dec 31, 2013	547	20,224	2,009
Dec 31, 2014	560	20,151	1,991
Dec 31, 2015	571	20,055	1,974
Dec 31, 2016	586	19,938	1,956
Dec 31, 2017	599	19,823	1,938
Dec 31, 2018	610	19,713	1,923
Dec 31, 2019	623	19,622	1,910
Dec 31, 2020	633	19,496	1,897
Dec 31, 2021	643	19,351	1,880
Dec 31, 2022	651	19,266	1,883

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 Luxembourg, Latvia; the database as a whole is cited above.