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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Mali	Romania	Costa Rica
Dec 31, 1999	10,596	22,414	3,785
Dec 31, 2000	10,833	22,262	3,867
Dec 31, 2001	10,890	22,106	3,951
Dec 31, 2002	11,007	21,931	4,021
Dec 31, 2003	11,307	21,828	4,079
Dec 31, 2004	11,579	21,704	4,145
Dec 31, 2005	11,804	21,571	4,212
Dec 31, 2006	12,043	21,443	4,278
Dec 31, 2007	12,337	21,129	4,338
Dec 31, 2008	12,657	20,779	4,400
Dec 31, 2009	12,986	20,607	4,467
Dec 31, 2010	13,325	20,485	4,544
Dec 31, 2011	13,679	20,385	4,587
Dec 31, 2012	14,040	20,296	4,648
Dec 31, 2013	14,412	20,224	4,707
Dec 31, 2014	14,803	20,151	4,768
Dec 31, 2015	15,210	20,055	4,827
Dec 31, 2016	15,629	19,938	4,885
Dec 31, 2017	16,060	19,823	4,942
Dec 31, 2018	16,507	19,713	4,998
Dec 31, 2019	16,967	19,622	5,052
Dec 31, 2020	17,442	19,496	5,105
Dec 31, 2021	17,930	19,351	5,158
Dec 31, 2022	18,494	19,266	5,185

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, Costa Rica; the database as a whole is cited above.