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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Uganda	Albania	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	23,408	3,085	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	24,195	3,065	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	24,992	3,047	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	25,846	3,038	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	26,661	3,026	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	27,414	3,014	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	28,200	2,998	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	29,021	2,979	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	29,846	2,957	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	30,647	2,934	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	31,469	2,915	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	32,343	2,900	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	33,257	2,892	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	34,234	2,888	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	35,271	2,882	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	36,419	2,876	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	37,673	2,868	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	39,157	2,863	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	40,879	2,861	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	42,329	2,854	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	43,639	2,842	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	45,120	2,825	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	46,645	2,799	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	48,065	2,787	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

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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; the database as a whole is cited above.