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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	Dominica	Romania	Haiti
Dec 31, 1999	273	70	22,414	8,121
Dec 31, 2000	274	71	22,262	8,279
Dec 31, 2001	275	71	22,106	8,430
Dec 31, 2002	276	72	21,931	8,580
Dec 31, 2003	278	72	21,828	8,739
Dec 31, 2004	279	72	21,704	8,900
Dec 31, 2005	280	72	21,571	9,061
Dec 31, 2006	281	72	21,443	9,216
Dec 31, 2007	282	72	21,129	9,364
Dec 31, 2008	283	73	20,779	9,508
Dec 31, 2009	285	73	20,607	9,652
Dec 31, 2010	286	73	20,485	9,553
Dec 31, 2011	287	73	20,385	9,670
Dec 31, 2012	288	73	20,296	9,793
Dec 31, 2013	289	73	20,224	9,922
Dec 31, 2014	290	73	20,151	10,047
Dec 31, 2015	291	74	20,055	10,254
Dec 31, 2016	291	74	19,938	10,486
Dec 31, 2017	292	74	19,823	10,647
Dec 31, 2018	293	74	19,713	10,788
Dec 31, 2019	294	75	19,622	10,933
Dec 31, 2020	294	75	19,496	11,077
Dec 31, 2021	295	76	19,351	11,215
Dec 31, 2022	295	76	19,266	11,349

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

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, Dominica, Haiti; the database as a whole is cited above.