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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Montenegro	Romania	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	623	22,414	627
Dec 31, 2000	623	22,262	659
Dec 31, 2001	623	22,106	691
Dec 31, 2002	622	21,931	724
Dec 31, 2003	621	21,828	757
Dec 31, 2004	621	21,704	850
Dec 31, 2005	621	21,571	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	620	21,443	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	620	21,129	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	621	20,779	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	622	20,607	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	623	20,485	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	622	20,385	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	622	20,296	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	622	20,224	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	621	20,151	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	620	20,055	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	618	19,938	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	616	19,823	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	614	19,713	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	613	19,622	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	612	19,496	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	611	19,351	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	610	19,266	2,559

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 Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.