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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosHondurasRomaniaQatar
2736,19822,414627
2746,36722,262659
2756,53522,106691
2766,69821,931724
2786,86321,828757
2797,02821,704850
2807,19421,5711,001
2817,35921,4431,153
2827,52221,1291,306
2837,68220,7791,460
2857,83920,6071,615
2867,99120,4851,770
2878,14120,3851,904
2888,28820,2962,010
2898,42920,2242,103
2908,54620,1512,187
2918,66120,0552,261
2918,77019,9382,326
2928,87819,8232,384
2939,00219,7132,435
2949,15419,6222,480
2949,30419,4962,519
2959,44819,3512,553
2959,59019,2662,559

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, Honduras, Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.