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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	Thailand	Albania	Romania	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	3,085	22,414	387
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	3,065	22,262	390
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	3,047	22,106	393
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	3,038	21,931	396
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	3,026	21,828	398
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	3,014	21,704	401
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	2,998	21,571	404
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	2,979	21,443	405
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	2,957	21,129	406
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	2,934	20,779	409
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	2,915	20,607	412
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	2,900	20,485	414
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	2,892	20,385	416
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	2,888	20,296	420
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	2,882	20,224	426
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	2,876	20,151	435
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	2,868	20,055	445
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	2,863	19,938	455
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	2,861	19,823	468
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	2,854	19,713	485
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	2,842	19,622	504
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	2,825	19,496	516
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	2,799	19,351	518
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	2,787	19,266	530

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.

All data sources

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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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 Albania, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.