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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	Iceland	Norway	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	4,463	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	4,492	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	4,515	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	4,539	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	4,566	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	4,593	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	4,624	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	4,662	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	4,710	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	4,769	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	4,830	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	4,890	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	4,954	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	5,020	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	5,081	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	5,138	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	5,191	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	5,237	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	5,278	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	5,313	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	5,349	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	5,380	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	5,409	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	5,458	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.

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Norway

1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

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.