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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Seychelles	Burkina Faso	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	78	11,075	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	79	11,405	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	80	11,828	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	81	12,380	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	82	12,829	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	83	13,178	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	84	13,540	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	85	13,917	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	86	14,309	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	87	14,722	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	87	15,152	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	88	15,600	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	89	16,064	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	90	16,563	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	91	17,072	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	92	17,575	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	92	18,094	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	93	18,621	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	94	19,157	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	95	19,698	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	96	20,242	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	97	20,788	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	98	21,336	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	98	21,889	19,266

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 Seychelles, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.