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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	France	Romania	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	273	60,396	22,414	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,811	22,262	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	275	61,255	22,106	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,703	21,931	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	278	62,141	21,828	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,600	21,704	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	280	63,073	21,571	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,513	21,443	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,906	21,129	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,264	20,779	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,594	20,607	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	286	64,913	20,485	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,231	20,385	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,552	20,296	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	289	65,891	20,224	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,212	20,151	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,480	20,055	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	291	66,730	19,938	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,015	19,823	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,347	19,713	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,660	19,622	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	294	67,901	19,496	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,114	19,351	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,387	19,266	17,288

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

France

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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.

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.

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