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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	Australia	Romania	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	273	18,692	22,414	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	274	18,907	22,262	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	275	19,151	22,106	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	276	19,371	21,931	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	278	19,595	21,828	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	279	19,805	21,704	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	280	20,048	21,571	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	281	20,320	21,443	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	282	20,694	21,129	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	283	21,113	20,779	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	285	21,553	20,607	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	286	21,891	20,485	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	287	22,197	20,385	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	288	22,588	20,296	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	289	22,980	20,224	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	290	23,326	20,151	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	291	23,664	20,055	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,036	19,938	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,445	19,823	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	293	24,823	19,713	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,204	19,622	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	294	25,529	19,496	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	295	25,574	19,351	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	295	25,826	19,266	7,432

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.

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