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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	Burkina Faso	Romania	Ireland
Dec 31, 1999	273	11,075	22,414	3,757
Dec 31, 2000	274	11,405	22,262	3,807
Dec 31, 2001	275	11,828	22,106	3,866
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,380	21,931	3,934
Dec 31, 2003	278	12,829	21,828	4,000
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,178	21,704	4,070
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,540	21,571	4,163
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,917	21,443	4,273
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,309	21,129	4,403
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,722	20,779	4,499
Dec 31, 2009	285	15,152	20,607	4,542
Dec 31, 2010	286	15,600	20,485	4,563
Dec 31, 2011	287	16,064	20,385	4,581
Dec 31, 2012	288	16,563	20,296	4,600
Dec 31, 2013	289	17,072	20,224	4,623
Dec 31, 2014	290	17,575	20,151	4,655
Dec 31, 2015	291	18,094	20,055	4,699
Dec 31, 2016	291	18,621	19,938	4,752
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,157	19,823	4,805
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,698	19,713	4,864
Dec 31, 2019	294	20,242	19,622	4,930
Dec 31, 2020	294	20,788	19,496	4,983
Dec 31, 2021	295	21,336	19,351	5,022
Dec 31, 2022	295	21,889	19,266	5,118

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.

Ireland

1820, 1870, 1913: MPD 2013, Bolt and Van Zanden, 2014, The Maddison Project: collaborative research on historical national accounts. The Economic History Review, 67(3), 627–651
1913-1926: P. Deane (1968), and Feinstein, 1972
1926-1950: K.A. Kennedy, Productivity and Industrial Growth: The Irish Experience, Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 3.

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