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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Thailand	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	59,748	387
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	60,165	390
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	60,746	393
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	61,323	396
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	61,884	398
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	62,425	401
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	62,956	404
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	63,467	405
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	63,937	406
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	64,381	409
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	64,804	412
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	65,208	414
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	65,599	416
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	65,970	420
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	66,332	426
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	66,673	435
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	66,975	445
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	67,250	455
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	67,506	468
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	67,750	485
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	67,975	504
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	68,180	516
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	68,366	518
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	68,457	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.

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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