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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Romania	Mali
Dec 31, 1999	433	22,414	10,596
Dec 31, 2000	438	22,262	10,833
Dec 31, 2001	443	22,106	10,890
Dec 31, 2002	448	21,931	11,007
Dec 31, 2003	454	21,828	11,307
Dec 31, 2004	460	21,704	11,579
Dec 31, 2005	467	21,571	11,804
Dec 31, 2006	474	21,443	12,043
Dec 31, 2007	482	21,129	12,337
Dec 31, 2008	491	20,779	12,657
Dec 31, 2009	500	20,607	12,986
Dec 31, 2010	509	20,485	13,325
Dec 31, 2011	521	20,385	13,679
Dec 31, 2012	533	20,296	14,040
Dec 31, 2013	547	20,224	14,412
Dec 31, 2014	560	20,151	14,803
Dec 31, 2015	571	20,055	15,210
Dec 31, 2016	586	19,938	15,629
Dec 31, 2017	599	19,823	16,060
Dec 31, 2018	610	19,713	16,507
Dec 31, 2019	623	19,622	16,967
Dec 31, 2020	633	19,496	17,442
Dec 31, 2021	643	19,351	17,930
Dec 31, 2022	651	19,266	18,494

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, Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.