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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Niger	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	10,424	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	10,785	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	11,170	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	11,580	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	12,015	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	12,472	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	12,954	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	13,459	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	13,986	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	14,532	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	15,092	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	15,669	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	16,263	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	16,903	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	17,569	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	18,242	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	18,957	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	19,708	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	20,462	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	21,228	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	22,023	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	22,842	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	23,691	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	24,587	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 Niger; the database as a whole is cited above.