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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Romania	Comoros
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	22,414	531
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	22,262	545
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	22,106	559
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	21,931	574
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	21,828	590
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	21,704	606
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	21,571	623
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	21,443	640
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	21,129	657
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	20,779	674
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	20,607	690
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	20,485	706
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	20,385	722
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	20,296	737
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	20,224	752
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	20,151	767
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	20,055	781
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	19,938	795
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	19,823	808
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	19,713	821
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	19,622	837
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	19,496	853
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	19,351	869
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	19,266	885

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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 Comoros; the database as a whole is cited above.