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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Montenegro	Romania	Bangladesh
Dec 31, 1999	623	22,414	132,907
Dec 31, 2000	623	22,262	135,207
Dec 31, 2001	623	22,106	137,420
Dec 31, 2002	622	21,931	139,573
Dec 31, 2003	621	21,828	141,650
Dec 31, 2004	621	21,704	143,644
Dec 31, 2005	621	21,571	145,546
Dec 31, 2006	620	21,443	147,376
Dec 31, 2007	620	21,129	149,047
Dec 31, 2008	621	20,779	150,562
Dec 31, 2009	622	20,607	152,189
Dec 31, 2010	623	20,485	153,927
Dec 31, 2011	622	20,385	155,634
Dec 31, 2012	622	20,296	157,326
Dec 31, 2013	622	20,224	158,999
Dec 31, 2014	621	20,151	160,650
Dec 31, 2015	620	20,055	162,273
Dec 31, 2016	618	19,938	163,938
Dec 31, 2017	616	19,823	165,655
Dec 31, 2018	614	19,713	167,358
Dec 31, 2019	613	19,622	169,045
Dec 31, 2020	612	19,496	170,709
Dec 31, 2021	611	19,351	172,354
Dec 31, 2022	610	19,266	174,217

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

Montenegro

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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.

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995