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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Madagascar	Romania	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	15,259	22,414	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	15,707	22,262	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	16,162	22,106	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	16,631	21,931	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	17,114	21,828	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	17,610	21,704	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	18,120	21,571	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	18,641	21,443	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	19,173	21,129	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	19,717	20,779	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	20,272	20,607	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	20,837	20,485	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	21,413	20,385	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	21,999	20,296	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	22,593	20,224	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	23,196	20,151	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	23,806	20,055	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	24,423	19,938	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	25,044	19,823	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	25,671	19,713	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	26,302	19,622	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	26,936	19,496	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	27,573	19,351	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	28,237	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.

All data sources

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.

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