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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Costa Rica
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	3,785
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	3,867
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	3,951
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	4,021
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	4,079
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	4,145
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	4,212
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	4,278
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	4,338
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	4,400
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	4,467
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	4,544
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	4,587
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	4,648
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	4,707
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	4,768
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	4,827
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	4,885
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	4,942
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	4,998
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	5,052
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	5,105
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	5,158
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	5,185

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 Costa Rica; the database as a whole is cited above.