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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Bulgaria	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,091	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,052	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,798	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,755	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,710	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,668	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,628	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	281	7,587	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	282	7,549	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	283	7,513	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	285	7,475	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	286	7,425	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	287	7,242	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	288	7,200	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	289	7,160	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	290	7,119	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	291	7,074	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	291	7,024	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	292	6,973	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	293	6,923	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	294	6,874	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	294	6,833	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	295	6,778	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	295	6,720	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.

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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

Bulgaria

1892-1945: Ivanov, M. (2006). “Bulgarian National Income between 1892 and 1924,” Bulgarian National Discussion Papers DP/54/2006

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.