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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	Greece	Romania	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,618	22,414	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,662	22,262	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,718	22,106	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,757	21,931	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,783	21,828	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,809	21,704	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,841	21,571	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,874	21,443	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,901	21,129	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,930	20,779	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,959	20,607	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,973	20,485	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	287	10,957	20,385	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,898	20,296	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,819	20,224	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,747	20,151	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,677	20,055	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	291	10,633	19,938	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,612	19,823	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,590	19,713	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,579	19,622	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,556	19,496	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,499	19,351	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,437	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

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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.