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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	Latvia
Dec 31, 1999	273	81,439	22,414	2,386
Dec 31, 2000	274	81,474	22,262	2,363
Dec 31, 2001	275	81,534	22,106	2,333
Dec 31, 2002	276	81,595	21,931	2,306
Dec 31, 2003	278	81,566	21,828	2,284
Dec 31, 2004	279	81,473	21,704	2,259
Dec 31, 2005	280	81,354	21,571	2,235
Dec 31, 2006	281	81,190	21,443	2,215
Dec 31, 2007	282	81,009	21,129	2,197
Dec 31, 2008	283	80,781	20,779	2,174
Dec 31, 2009	285	80,500	20,607	2,138
Dec 31, 2010	286	80,301	20,485	2,093
Dec 31, 2011	287	80,292	20,385	2,055
Dec 31, 2012	288	80,443	20,296	2,030
Dec 31, 2013	289	80,663	20,224	2,009
Dec 31, 2014	290	81,000	20,151	1,991
Dec 31, 2015	291	81,704	20,055	1,974
Dec 31, 2016	291	82,366	19,938	1,956
Dec 31, 2017	292	82,674	19,823	1,938
Dec 31, 2018	293	82,923	19,713	1,923
Dec 31, 2019	294	83,110	19,622	1,910
Dec 31, 2020	294	83,178	19,496	1,897
Dec 31, 2021	295	83,213	19,351	1,880
Dec 31, 2022	295	83,811	19,266	1,883

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.

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