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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Tanzania	Romania	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	32,912	22,414	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	33,953	22,262	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	34,974	22,106	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	36,021	21,931	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	37,100	21,828	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	38,167	21,704	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	39,262	21,571	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	40,387	21,443	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	41,557	21,129	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	42,741	20,779	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	43,889	20,607	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	45,132	20,485	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	46,531	20,385	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	47,965	20,296	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	49,437	20,224	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	50,965	20,151	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	52,604	20,055	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	54,336	19,938	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	56,062	19,823	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	57,765	19,713	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	59,465	19,622	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	61,191	19,496	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	62,944	19,351	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	64,835	19,266	31,058

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 Tanzania, Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.