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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Niger	Romania	Estonia
Dec 31, 1999	10,424	22,414	1,378
Dec 31, 2000	10,785	22,262	1,400
Dec 31, 2001	11,170	22,106	1,391
Dec 31, 2002	11,580	21,931	1,382
Dec 31, 2003	12,015	21,828	1,374
Dec 31, 2004	12,472	21,704	1,365
Dec 31, 2005	12,954	21,571	1,357
Dec 31, 2006	13,459	21,443	1,349
Dec 31, 2007	13,986	21,129	1,341
Dec 31, 2008	14,532	20,779	1,337
Dec 31, 2009	15,092	20,607	1,334
Dec 31, 2010	15,669	20,485	1,332
Dec 31, 2011	16,263	20,385	1,328
Dec 31, 2012	16,903	20,296	1,324
Dec 31, 2013	17,569	20,224	1,319
Dec 31, 2014	18,242	20,151	1,314
Dec 31, 2015	18,957	20,055	1,312
Dec 31, 2016	19,708	19,938	1,314
Dec 31, 2017	20,462	19,823	1,314
Dec 31, 2018	21,228	19,713	1,318
Dec 31, 2019	22,023	19,622	1,323
Dec 31, 2020	22,842	19,496	1,327
Dec 31, 2021	23,691	19,351	1,329
Dec 31, 2022	24,587	19,266	1,330

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