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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	São Tomé & Príncipe	Nepal	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	138	23,087	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	141	23,487	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	144	23,887	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	147	24,273	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	151	24,645	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	154	24,989	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	158	25,255	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	161	25,484	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	165	25,732	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	168	25,998	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	172	26,298	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	176	26,664	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	180	27,081	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	183	27,505	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	187	27,917	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	190	28,311	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	194	28,678	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	198	29,034	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	201	29,384	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	204	29,718	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	208	30,057	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	212	30,595	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	216	31,311	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	220	31,845	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, Nepal; the database as a whole is cited above.