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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	Bolivia	Romania	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,007	22,414	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,177	22,262	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	275	8,351	22,106	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	276	8,529	21,931	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,711	21,828	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,895	21,704	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	280	9,081	21,571	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	281	9,268	21,443	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	282	9,457	21,129	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	283	9,647	20,779	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	285	9,836	20,607	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,024	20,485	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	287	10,211	20,385	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,397	20,296	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,581	20,224	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,763	20,151	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,942	20,055	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,118	19,938	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,289	19,823	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,456	19,713	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,621	19,622	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,775	19,496	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,917	19,351	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	295	12,060	19,266	3,570

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

Bolivia

1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128

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, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.