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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date MoroccoRomaniaIsrael
28,40022,4145,927
28,74422,2626,088
29,09422,1066,236
29,44721,9316,366
29,80621,8286,484
30,16921,7046,603
30,55221,5716,723
30,95321,4436,846
31,35421,1296,972
31,75420,7797,100
32,15420,6077,226
32,55320,4857,360
32,95120,3857,498
33,34620,2967,637
33,73720,2247,781
34,12420,1517,931
34,51120,0558,091
34,89819,9388,251
35,27919,8238,412
35,65319,7138,576
36,01819,6228,742
36,37519,4968,899
36,72319,3519,047
37,10119,2669,188

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.

Israel

  • 1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91

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