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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	Germany	Romania	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	273	81,439	22,414	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	274	81,474	22,262	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	275	81,534	22,106	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	276	81,595	21,931	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	278	81,566	21,828	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	81,473	21,704	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	280	81,354	21,571	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	281	81,190	21,443	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	282	81,009	21,129	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	283	80,781	20,779	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	285	80,500	20,607	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	286	80,301	20,485	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	287	80,292	20,385	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	288	80,443	20,296	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	289	80,663	20,224	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	290	81,000	20,151	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	291	81,704	20,055	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	291	82,366	19,938	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	292	82,674	19,823	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	293	82,923	19,713	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	294	83,110	19,622	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	294	83,178	19,496	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	295	83,213	19,351	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	295	83,811	19,266	46,736

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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.

Argentina

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 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

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