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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	Indonesia	Romania	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	273	208,105	22,414	433
Dec 31, 2000	274	211,408	22,262	438
Dec 31, 2001	275	214,475	22,106	443
Dec 31, 2002	276	217,516	21,931	448
Dec 31, 2003	278	220,549	21,828	454
Dec 31, 2004	279	224,473	21,704	460
Dec 31, 2005	280	227,534	21,571	467
Dec 31, 2006	281	230,739	21,443	474
Dec 31, 2007	282	233,918	21,129	482
Dec 31, 2008	283	237,056	20,779	491
Dec 31, 2009	285	240,140	20,607	500
Dec 31, 2010	286	243,171	20,485	509
Dec 31, 2011	287	246,150	20,385	521
Dec 31, 2012	288	249,086	20,296	533
Dec 31, 2013	289	251,947	20,224	547
Dec 31, 2014	290	254,702	20,151	560
Dec 31, 2015	291	257,351	20,055	571
Dec 31, 2016	291	259,906	19,938	586
Dec 31, 2017	292	262,379	19,823	599
Dec 31, 2018	293	264,789	19,713	610
Dec 31, 2019	294	267,142	19,622	623
Dec 31, 2020	294	269,437	19,496	633
Dec 31, 2021	295	271,674	19,351	643
Dec 31, 2022	295	273,409	19,266	651

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

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