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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	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	273	208,105	22,414	387
Dec 31, 2000	274	211,408	22,262	390
Dec 31, 2001	275	214,475	22,106	393
Dec 31, 2002	276	217,516	21,931	396
Dec 31, 2003	278	220,549	21,828	398
Dec 31, 2004	279	224,473	21,704	401
Dec 31, 2005	280	227,534	21,571	404
Dec 31, 2006	281	230,739	21,443	405
Dec 31, 2007	282	233,918	21,129	406
Dec 31, 2008	283	237,056	20,779	409
Dec 31, 2009	285	240,140	20,607	412
Dec 31, 2010	286	243,171	20,485	414
Dec 31, 2011	287	246,150	20,385	416
Dec 31, 2012	288	249,086	20,296	420
Dec 31, 2013	289	251,947	20,224	426
Dec 31, 2014	290	254,702	20,151	435
Dec 31, 2015	291	257,351	20,055	445
Dec 31, 2016	291	259,906	19,938	455
Dec 31, 2017	292	262,379	19,823	468
Dec 31, 2018	293	264,789	19,713	485
Dec 31, 2019	294	267,142	19,622	504
Dec 31, 2020	294	269,437	19,496	516
Dec 31, 2021	295	271,674	19,351	518
Dec 31, 2022	295	273,409	19,266	530

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