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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	Ecuador	Romania	Namibia
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	22,414	1,841
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	22,262	1,893
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	22,106	1,945
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	21,931	1,981
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	21,828	2,008
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	21,704	2,034
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	21,571	2,060
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	21,443	2,086
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	21,129	2,113
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	20,779	2,141
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	20,607	2,170
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	20,485	2,201
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	20,385	2,232
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	20,296	2,268
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	20,224	2,312
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	20,151	2,360
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	20,055	2,408
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	19,938	2,456
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	19,823	2,505
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	19,713	2,554
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	19,622	2,602
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	19,496	2,651
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	19,351	2,700
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	19,266	2,739

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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