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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	Iraq	Romania	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,076	22,414	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,748	22,262	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	275	23,440	22,106	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	276	24,212	21,931	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,979	21,828	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	279	25,726	21,704	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	280	26,531	21,571	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,706	21,443	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,429	21,129	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	283	26,969	20,779	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	285	28,024	20,607	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	286	28,956	20,485	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	287	29,974	20,385	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	288	31,321	20,296	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	289	32,779	20,224	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	290	33,857	20,151	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	291	34,674	20,055	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	291	35,437	19,938	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,200	19,823	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,015	19,713	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,846	19,622	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,673	19,496	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	295	39,491	19,351	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	295	40,364	19,266	7,666

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

Iraq

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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