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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Kuwait
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	1,926
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	1,982
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	2,038
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	2,094
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	2,151
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	2,208
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	2,268
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	2,329
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	2,388
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	2,446
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	2,502
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	2,556
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	2,609
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	2,660
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	2,710
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	2,757
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	2,804
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	2,848
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	2,891
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	2,933
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	2,972
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	3,011
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	3,048
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	3,061

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 Kuwait; the database as a whole is cited above.