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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Romania	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	387	22,414	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	390	22,262	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	393	22,106	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	396	21,931	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	398	21,828	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	401	21,704	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	404	21,571	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	405	21,443	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	406	21,129	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	409	20,779	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	412	20,607	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	414	20,485	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	416	20,385	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	420	20,296	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	426	20,224	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	435	20,151	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	445	20,055	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	455	19,938	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	468	19,823	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	485	19,713	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	504	19,622	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	516	19,496	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	518	19,351	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	530	19,266	5,907

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 Malta, Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.