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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Montenegro	Romania	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	623	22,414	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	623	22,262	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	623	22,106	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	622	21,931	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	621	21,828	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	621	21,704	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	621	21,571	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	620	21,443	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	620	21,129	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	621	20,779	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	622	20,607	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	623	20,485	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	622	20,385	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	622	20,296	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	622	20,224	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	621	20,151	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	620	20,055	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	618	19,938	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	616	19,823	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	614	19,713	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	613	19,622	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	612	19,496	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	611	19,351	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	610	19,266	31,058

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 Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.