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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Libya	Romania	Trinidad & Tobago
Dec 31, 1999	4,993	22,414	1,301
Dec 31, 2000	5,116	22,262	1,303
Dec 31, 2001	5,237	22,106	1,308
Dec 31, 2002	5,357	21,931	1,314
Dec 31, 2003	5,476	21,828	1,320
Dec 31, 2004	5,595	21,704	1,326
Dec 31, 2005	5,715	21,571	1,332
Dec 31, 2006	5,835	21,443	1,338
Dec 31, 2007	5,967	21,129	1,344
Dec 31, 2008	6,115	20,779	1,352
Dec 31, 2009	6,270	20,607	1,359
Dec 31, 2010	6,432	20,485	1,365
Dec 31, 2011	6,144	20,385	1,372
Dec 31, 2012	5,849	20,296	1,379
Dec 31, 2013	6,010	20,224	1,386
Dec 31, 2014	6,163	20,151	1,392
Dec 31, 2015	6,291	20,055	1,399
Dec 31, 2016	6,415	19,938	1,405
Dec 31, 2017	6,549	19,823	1,411
Dec 31, 2018	6,689	19,713	1,436
Dec 31, 2019	6,826	19,622	1,452
Dec 31, 2020	6,960	19,496	1,448
Dec 31, 2021	7,088	19,351	1,450
Dec 31, 2022	7,169	19,266	1,456

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 Libya, Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.