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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Mali	Romania	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	10,596	22,414	627
Dec 31, 2000	10,833	22,262	659
Dec 31, 2001	10,890	22,106	691
Dec 31, 2002	11,007	21,931	724
Dec 31, 2003	11,307	21,828	757
Dec 31, 2004	11,579	21,704	850
Dec 31, 2005	11,804	21,571	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	12,043	21,443	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	12,337	21,129	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	12,657	20,779	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	12,986	20,607	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	13,325	20,485	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	13,679	20,385	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	14,040	20,296	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	14,412	20,224	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	14,803	20,151	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	15,210	20,055	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	15,629	19,938	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	16,060	19,823	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	16,507	19,713	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	16,967	19,622	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	17,442	19,496	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	17,930	19,351	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	18,494	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

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, Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.