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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	Iceland	Ecuador	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	277	12,268	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	281	12,446	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	285	12,629	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	288	12,827	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	289	13,074	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	293	13,368	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	296	13,661	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	304	13,915	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	311	14,133	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	319	14,352	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	319	14,569	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	318	14,786	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	319	15,002	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	321	15,218	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	324	15,433	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	327	15,647	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	331	15,860	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	335	16,072	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	343	16,282	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	353	16,489	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	361	16,693	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	366	16,894	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	372	17,093	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	380	17,288	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.

All data sources

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

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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.