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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosBurkina FasoRomaniaDjibouti
27311,07522,414646
27411,40522,262669
27511,82822,106693
27612,38021,931716
27812,82921,828691
27913,17821,704657
28013,54021,571666
28113,91721,443679
28214,30921,129694
28314,72220,779709
28515,15220,607725
28615,60020,485741
28716,06420,385757
28816,56320,296774
28917,07220,224792
29017,57520,151810
29118,09420,055828
29118,62119,938847
29219,15719,823865
29319,69819,713884
29420,24219,622898
29420,78819,496912
29521,33619,351924
29521,88919,266937

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

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, Burkina Faso, Djibouti; the database as a whole is cited above.