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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Belarus
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	10,064
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	10,034
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	10,000
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	9,955
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	9,905
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	9,856
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	9,807
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	9,764
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	9,734
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	9,713
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	9,697
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	9,681
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	9,662
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	9,643
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	9,624
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	9,605
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	9,585
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	9,564
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	9,542
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	9,519
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	9,495
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	9,469
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	9,442
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	9,400

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 Belarus; the database as a whole is cited above.