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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	Colombia	Romania	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,365	22,414	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,911	22,262	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	275	39,411	22,106	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	276	39,918	21,931	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	278	40,416	21,828	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	279	40,899	21,704	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	280	41,374	21,571	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	281	41,862	21,443	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	282	42,324	21,129	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	283	42,781	20,779	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	285	43,264	20,607	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	286	43,771	20,485	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	287	44,225	20,385	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	288	44,660	20,296	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	289	45,081	20,224	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	290	45,846	20,151	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,290	20,055	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,796	19,938	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	292	47,385	19,823	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	293	48,222	19,713	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	294	49,326	19,622	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	294	50,283	19,496	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	295	50,978	19,351	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,332	19,266	10,437

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

Colombia

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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.

Greece

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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