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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	Austria	Romania	Comoros
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,039	22,414	531
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,059	22,262	545
Dec 31, 2001	275	8,090	22,106	559
Dec 31, 2002	276	8,130	21,931	574
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,166	21,828	590
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,217	21,704	606
Dec 31, 2005	280	8,274	21,571	623
Dec 31, 2006	281	8,317	21,443	640
Dec 31, 2007	282	8,344	21,129	657
Dec 31, 2008	283	8,370	20,779	674
Dec 31, 2009	285	8,390	20,607	690
Dec 31, 2010	286	8,410	20,485	706
Dec 31, 2011	287	8,438	20,385	722
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,476	20,296	737
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,527	20,224	752
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,594	20,151	767
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,680	20,055	781
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,791	19,938	795
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,847	19,823	808
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,890	19,713	821
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,930	19,622	837
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,969	19,496	853
Dec 31, 2021	295	9,004	19,351	869
Dec 31, 2022	295	9,107	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.

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

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, Comoros; the database as a whole is cited above.