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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	Cuba	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	273	11,108	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	274	11,147	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	275	11,179	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	276	11,210	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	278	11,241	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	279	11,260	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	280	11,268	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	281	11,266	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	282	11,261	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	283	11,258	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	285	11,260	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	286	11,262	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	287	11,264	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	288	11,262	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	289	11,250	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	290	11,238	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	291	11,214	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,180	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,147	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,116	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,105	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,089	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,046	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	295	11,003	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

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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; the database as a whole is cited above.