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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Montenegro	Romania	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	623	22,414	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	623	22,262	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	623	22,106	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	622	21,931	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	621	21,828	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	621	21,704	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	621	21,571	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	620	21,443	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	620	21,129	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	621	20,779	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	622	20,607	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	623	20,485	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	622	20,385	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	622	20,296	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	622	20,224	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	621	20,151	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	620	20,055	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	618	19,938	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	616	19,823	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	614	19,713	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	613	19,622	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	612	19,496	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	611	19,351	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	610	19,266	3,228

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.

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