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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	São Tomé & Príncipe	Cameroon	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	138	15,483	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	141	15,913	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	144	16,354	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	147	16,815	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	151	17,289	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	154	17,764	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	158	18,249	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	161	18,746	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	165	19,278	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	168	19,843	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	172	20,419	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	176	21,002	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	180	21,586	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	183	22,181	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	187	22,800	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	190	23,513	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	194	24,273	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	198	24,995	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	201	25,680	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	204	26,373	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	208	27,114	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	212	27,878	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	216	28,663	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	220	29,417	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 São Tomé & Príncipe, Cameroon; the database as a whole is cited above.