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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	Qatar	Romania	Liberia
Dec 31, 1999	627	22,414	2,741
Dec 31, 2000	659	22,262	2,847
Dec 31, 2001	691	22,106	2,917
Dec 31, 2002	724	21,931	2,978
Dec 31, 2003	757	21,828	2,983
Dec 31, 2004	850	21,704	3,005
Dec 31, 2005	1,001	21,571	3,138
Dec 31, 2006	1,153	21,443	3,311
Dec 31, 2007	1,306	21,129	3,469
Dec 31, 2008	1,460	20,779	3,603
Dec 31, 2009	1,615	20,607	3,708
Dec 31, 2010	1,770	20,485	3,817
Dec 31, 2011	1,904	20,385	3,984
Dec 31, 2012	2,010	20,296	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	2,103	20,224	4,244
Dec 31, 2014	2,187	20,151	4,348
Dec 31, 2015	2,261	20,055	4,460
Dec 31, 2016	2,326	19,938	4,576
Dec 31, 2017	2,384	19,823	4,689
Dec 31, 2018	2,435	19,713	4,810
Dec 31, 2019	2,480	19,622	4,904
Dec 31, 2020	2,519	19,496	5,005
Dec 31, 2021	2,553	19,351	5,109
Dec 31, 2022	2,559	19,266	5,216

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.

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

No separate list is published for Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.