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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Australia	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	18,692	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	18,907	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	19,151	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	19,371	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	19,595	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	19,805	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	20,048	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	20,320	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	20,694	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	21,113	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	21,553	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	21,891	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	22,197	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	22,588	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	22,980	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	23,326	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	23,664	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	24,036	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	24,445	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	24,823	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	25,204	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	25,529	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	25,574	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	25,826	2,787

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.

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

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