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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	Estonia
Dec 31, 1999	273	11,108	22,414	1,378
Dec 31, 2000	274	11,147	22,262	1,400
Dec 31, 2001	275	11,179	22,106	1,391
Dec 31, 2002	276	11,210	21,931	1,382
Dec 31, 2003	278	11,241	21,828	1,374
Dec 31, 2004	279	11,260	21,704	1,365
Dec 31, 2005	280	11,268	21,571	1,357
Dec 31, 2006	281	11,266	21,443	1,349
Dec 31, 2007	282	11,261	21,129	1,341
Dec 31, 2008	283	11,258	20,779	1,337
Dec 31, 2009	285	11,260	20,607	1,334
Dec 31, 2010	286	11,262	20,485	1,332
Dec 31, 2011	287	11,264	20,385	1,328
Dec 31, 2012	288	11,262	20,296	1,324
Dec 31, 2013	289	11,250	20,224	1,319
Dec 31, 2014	290	11,238	20,151	1,314
Dec 31, 2015	291	11,214	20,055	1,312
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,180	19,938	1,314
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,147	19,823	1,314
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,116	19,713	1,318
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,105	19,622	1,323
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,089	19,496	1,327
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,046	19,351	1,329
Dec 31, 2022	295	11,003	19,266	1,330

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

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, Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.