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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Burkina Faso	Cyprus
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	11,075	818
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	11,405	826
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	11,828	835
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	12,380	845
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	12,829	855
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	13,178	867
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	13,540	879
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	13,917	894
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	14,309	913
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	14,722	937
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	15,152	962
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	15,600	988
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	16,064	1,013
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	16,563	1,029
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	17,072	1,026
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	17,575	1,015
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	18,094	1,009
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	18,621	1,014
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	19,157	1,023
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	19,698	1,036
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	20,242	1,050
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	20,788	1,062
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	21,336	1,072
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	21,889	1,087

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 Burkina Faso, Cyprus; the database as a whole is cited above.