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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	Belgium	Romania	Iceland
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,227	22,414	277
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,252	22,262	281
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,288	22,106	285
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,334	21,931	288
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,377	21,828	289
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,422	21,704	293
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,480	21,571	296
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,549	21,443	304
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,627	21,129	311
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,711	20,779	319
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,797	20,607	319
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,897	20,485	318
Dec 31, 2011	287	11,039	20,385	319
Dec 31, 2012	288	11,108	20,296	321
Dec 31, 2013	289	11,160	20,224	324
Dec 31, 2014	290	11,210	20,151	327
Dec 31, 2015	291	11,275	20,055	331
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,332	19,938	335
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,376	19,823	343
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,429	19,713	353
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,491	19,622	361
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,546	19,496	366
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,594	19,351	372
Dec 31, 2022	295	11,695	19,266	380

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

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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.

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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