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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	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,365	22,414	387
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,911	22,262	390
Dec 31, 2001	275	39,411	22,106	393
Dec 31, 2002	276	39,918	21,931	396
Dec 31, 2003	278	40,416	21,828	398
Dec 31, 2004	279	40,899	21,704	401
Dec 31, 2005	280	41,374	21,571	404
Dec 31, 2006	281	41,862	21,443	405
Dec 31, 2007	282	42,324	21,129	406
Dec 31, 2008	283	42,781	20,779	409
Dec 31, 2009	285	43,264	20,607	412
Dec 31, 2010	286	43,771	20,485	414
Dec 31, 2011	287	44,225	20,385	416
Dec 31, 2012	288	44,660	20,296	420
Dec 31, 2013	289	45,081	20,224	426
Dec 31, 2014	290	45,846	20,151	435
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,290	20,055	445
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,796	19,938	455
Dec 31, 2017	292	47,385	19,823	468
Dec 31, 2018	293	48,222	19,713	485
Dec 31, 2019	294	49,326	19,622	504
Dec 31, 2020	294	50,283	19,496	516
Dec 31, 2021	295	50,978	19,351	518
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,332	19,266	530

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.

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