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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Canada	Finland
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	30,510	5,166
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	30,796	5,176
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	31,132	5,188
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	31,473	5,201
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	31,758	5,213
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	32,055	5,228
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	32,360	5,246
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	32,688	5,266
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	33,007	5,289
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	33,367	5,313
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	33,750	5,339
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	34,127	5,363
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	34,463	5,388
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	34,839	5,414
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	35,209	5,439
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	35,565	5,463
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	35,831	5,481
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	36,239	5,495
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	36,677	5,508
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	37,198	5,516
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	37,736	5,522
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	38,174	5,531
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	38,383	5,542
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	38,685	5,556

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.

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

Finland

1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.