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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Turkmenistan
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	4,324
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	4,385
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	4,444
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	4,502
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	4,556
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	4,608
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	4,664
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	4,719
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	4,773
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	4,828
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	4,884
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	4,940
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	4,996
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	5,053
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	5,110
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	5,169
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	5,227
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	5,287
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	5,346
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	5,405
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	5,464
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	5,522
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	5,579
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	5,657

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 Turkmenistan; the database as a whole is cited above.