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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	Congo - Kinshasa	Australia	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	273	51,181	18,692	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	274	52,782	18,907	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	275	54,453	19,151	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	276	56,170	19,371	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	278	57,860	19,595	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	279	59,599	19,805	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	280	61,474	20,048	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,479	20,320	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	282	65,590	20,694	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	283	67,800	21,113	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	285	70,114	21,553	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	286	72,550	21,891	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	287	75,138	22,197	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	288	77,792	22,588	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	289	80,534	22,980	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	290	83,368	23,326	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	291	86,229	23,664	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	291	89,193	24,036	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	292	92,209	24,445	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	293	95,232	24,823	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	294	98,320	25,204	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	294	101,499	25,529	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	295	104,767	25,574	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	295	108,171	25,826	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

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

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, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.