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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Iceland	Madagascar
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	277	15,259
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	281	15,707
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	285	16,162
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	288	16,631
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	289	17,114
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	293	17,610
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	296	18,120
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	304	18,641
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	311	19,173
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	319	19,717
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	319	20,272
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	318	20,837
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	319	21,413
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	321	21,999
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	324	22,593
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	327	23,196
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	331	23,806
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	335	24,423
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	343	25,044
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	353	25,671
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	361	26,302
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	366	26,936
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	372	27,573
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	380	28,237

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.

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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