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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	United States	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,227	279,040	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,252	282,162	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,288	284,969	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,334	287,625	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,377	290,108	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,422	292,805	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,480	295,517	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,549	298,380	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,627	301,231	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,711	304,094	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,797	306,772	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,897	309,327	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	287	11,039	311,583	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	288	11,108	313,878	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	289	11,160	316,060	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	290	11,210	318,386	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	291	11,275	320,739	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,332	323,072	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,376	325,122	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,429	326,838	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,491	328,330	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,546	331,512	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,594	332,032	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	295	11,695	333,288	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.

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.

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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.