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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	Iran	Romania	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	273	64,704	22,414	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	274	65,411	22,262	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	275	66,167	22,106	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	276	66,689	21,931	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	278	67,807	21,828	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	279	68,480	21,704	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	280	69,325	21,571	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	281	70,158	21,443	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	282	71,040	21,129	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	283	71,942	20,779	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	285	72,888	20,607	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	286	73,826	20,485	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	287	74,625	20,385	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	288	75,446	20,296	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	289	76,418	20,224	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	290	77,521	20,151	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	291	78,652	20,055	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	291	79,700	19,938	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	292	80,725	19,823	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	293	81,721	19,713	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	294	82,685	19,622	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	294	83,614	19,496	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	295	84,505	19,351	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	295	85,108	19,266	108,171

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

Iran

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, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.