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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Poland	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	38,358	387
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	38,344	390
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	38,339	393
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	38,320	396
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	38,283	398
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	38,268	401
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	38,249	404
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	38,220	405
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	38,204	406
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	38,204	409
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	38,572	412
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	38,606	414
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	38,615	416
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	38,623	420
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	38,591	426
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	38,573	435
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	38,544	445
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	38,516	455
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	38,511	468
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	38,502	485
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	38,475	504
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	38,443	516
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	38,250	518
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	37,914	530

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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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