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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Mali	Albania	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	10,596	3,085	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	10,833	3,065	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	10,890	3,047	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	11,007	3,038	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	11,307	3,026	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	11,579	3,014	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	11,804	2,998	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	12,043	2,979	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	12,337	2,957	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	12,657	2,934	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	12,986	2,915	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	13,325	2,900	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	13,679	2,892	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	14,040	2,888	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	14,412	2,882	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	14,803	2,876	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	15,210	2,868	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	15,629	2,863	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	16,060	2,861	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	16,507	2,854	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	16,967	2,842	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	17,442	2,825	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	17,930	2,799	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	18,494	2,787	19,266

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

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 Mali, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.