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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Greece	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	10,618	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	10,662	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	10,718	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	10,757	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	10,783	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	10,809	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	10,841	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	10,874	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	10,901	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	10,930	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	10,959	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	10,973	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	10,957	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	10,898	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	10,819	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	10,747	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	10,677	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	10,633	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	10,612	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	10,590	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	10,579	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	10,556	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	10,499	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	10,437	7,666

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.

Greece

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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