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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Austria	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,039	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,059	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	275	8,090	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	276	8,130	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,166	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,217	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	280	8,274	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	281	8,317	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	282	8,344	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	283	8,370	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	285	8,390	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	286	8,410	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	287	8,438	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,476	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,527	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,594	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,680	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,791	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,847	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,890	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,930	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,969	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	295	9,004	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	295	9,107	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

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

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 Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.