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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	Sierra Leone
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,039	22,414	3,736
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,059	22,262	3,809
Dec 31, 2001	275	8,090	22,106	4,043
Dec 31, 2002	276	8,130	21,931	4,287
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,166	21,828	4,466
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,217	21,704	4,602
Dec 31, 2005	280	8,274	21,571	4,708
Dec 31, 2006	281	8,317	21,443	4,818
Dec 31, 2007	282	8,344	21,129	4,918
Dec 31, 2008	283	8,370	20,779	5,023
Dec 31, 2009	285	8,390	20,607	5,132
Dec 31, 2010	286	8,410	20,485	5,246
Dec 31, 2011	287	8,438	20,385	5,364
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,476	20,296	5,486
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,527	20,224	5,613
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,594	20,151	5,744
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,680	20,055	5,879
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,791	19,938	6,019
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,847	19,823	6,163
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,890	19,713	6,312
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,930	19,622	6,461
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,969	19,496	6,611
Dec 31, 2021	295	9,004	19,351	6,761
Dec 31, 2022	295	9,107	19,266	6,910

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, Sierra Leone; the database as a whole is cited above.