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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Israel
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	5,927
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	6,088
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	6,236
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	6,366
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	6,484
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	6,603
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	6,723
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	6,846
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	6,972
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	7,100
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	7,226
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	7,498
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	7,637
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	7,781
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	7,931
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	8,091
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	8,251
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	8,412
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	8,576
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	8,742
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	8,899
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	9,047
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	9,188

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.

Israel

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