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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	Tunisia	Romania	Singapore
Dec 31, 1999	9,417	22,414	3,959
Dec 31, 2000	9,514	22,262	4,028
Dec 31, 2001	9,613	22,106	4,138
Dec 31, 2002	9,711	21,931	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	9,810	21,828	4,115
Dec 31, 2004	9,906	21,704	4,167
Dec 31, 2005	9,997	21,571	4,266
Dec 31, 2006	10,087	21,443	4,401
Dec 31, 2007	10,178	21,129	4,589
Dec 31, 2008	10,274	20,779	4,839
Dec 31, 2009	10,377	20,607	4,988
Dec 31, 2010	10,491	20,485	5,077
Dec 31, 2011	10,612	20,385	5,184
Dec 31, 2012	10,737	20,296	5,312
Dec 31, 2013	10,866	20,224	5,399
Dec 31, 2014	10,996	20,151	5,470
Dec 31, 2015	11,124	20,055	5,535
Dec 31, 2016	11,248	19,938	5,607
Dec 31, 2017	11,365	19,823	5,612
Dec 31, 2018	11,477	19,713	5,639
Dec 31, 2019	11,583	19,622	5,704
Dec 31, 2020	11,681	19,496	5,686
Dec 31, 2021	11,772	19,351	5,716
Dec 31, 2022	11,862	19,266	5,750

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.

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

No separate list is published for Tunisia; the database as a whole is cited above.