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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Indonesia	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	273	208,105	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	274	211,408	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	275	214,475	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	276	217,516	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	278	220,549	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	279	224,473	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	280	227,534	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	281	230,739	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	282	233,918	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	283	237,056	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	285	240,140	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	286	243,171	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	287	246,150	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	288	249,086	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	289	251,947	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	290	254,702	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	291	257,351	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	291	259,906	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	292	262,379	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	293	264,789	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	294	267,142	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	294	269,437	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	295	271,674	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	295	273,409	19,266

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.

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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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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; the database as a whole is cited above.