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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Trinidad & Tobago	Romania	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	1,301	22,414	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	1,303	22,262	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	1,308	22,106	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	1,314	21,931	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	1,320	21,828	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	1,326	21,704	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	1,332	21,571	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	1,338	21,443	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	1,344	21,129	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	1,352	20,779	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	1,359	20,607	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	1,365	20,485	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	1,372	20,385	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	1,379	20,296	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	1,386	20,224	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	1,392	20,151	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	1,399	20,055	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	1,405	19,938	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	1,411	19,823	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	1,436	19,713	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	1,452	19,622	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	1,448	19,496	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	1,450	19,351	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	1,456	19,266	124,762

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.

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

No separate list is published for Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.