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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Romania	Uruguay
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	22,414	3,234
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	22,262	3,246
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	22,106	3,257
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	21,931	3,268
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	21,828	3,277
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	21,704	3,285
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	21,571	3,291
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	21,443	3,298
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	21,129	3,305
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	20,779	3,313
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	20,607	3,321
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	20,485	3,329
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	20,385	3,337
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	20,296	3,345
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	20,224	3,353
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	20,151	3,362
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	20,055	3,371
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	19,938	3,380
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	19,823	3,390
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	19,713	3,399
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	19,622	3,408
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	19,496	3,417
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	19,351	3,426
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	19,266	3,422

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

Zambia

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.

Uruguay

1800-1870: 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)
1870–2014: Bèrtola, L. (2016). El PIB per Capita de Uruguay 1870 - 2016: una reconstruccion. PHES working paper No 48