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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	Barbados	Argentina	Romania	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	22,414	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	22,262	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	22,106	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	21,931	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	21,828	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	21,704	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	21,571	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	21,443	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	21,129	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	20,779	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	20,607	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	20,485	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	20,385	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	20,296	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	20,224	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	20,151	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	20,055	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	19,938	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	19,823	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	19,713	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	19,622	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	19,496	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	19,351	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	19,266	8,834

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

Argentina

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 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

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.

Switzerland

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.