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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	São Tomé & Príncipe	Lebanon	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	138	3,460	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	141	3,499	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	144	3,554	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	147	3,610	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	151	3,665	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	154	3,721	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	158	3,777	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	161	3,853	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	165	3,954	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	168	4,036	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	172	4,082	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	176	4,097	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	180	4,115	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	183	4,206	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	187	4,696	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	190	5,365	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	194	5,640	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	198	5,688	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	201	5,680	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	204	5,562	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	208	5,331	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	212	4,986	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	216	4,802	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	220	4,713	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

Lebanon

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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; the database as a whole is cited above.