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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	Costa Rica	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,785	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,867	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,951	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,021	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	278	4,079	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	279	4,145	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	280	4,212	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	281	4,278	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	282	4,338	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	283	4,400	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	285	4,467	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	286	4,544	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	287	4,587	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	288	4,648	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	289	4,707	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	290	4,768	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	291	4,827	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	291	4,885	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	292	4,942	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	293	4,998	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	294	5,052	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	294	5,105	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	295	5,158	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	295	5,185	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

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, Costa Rica; the database as a whole is cited above.