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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	Romania	France
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	22,414	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	22,262	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	22,106	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	21,931	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	21,828	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	21,704	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	21,571	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	21,443	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	21,129	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	20,779	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	20,607	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	20,485	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	20,385	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	20,296	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	20,224	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	20,151	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	20,055	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	19,938	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	19,823	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	19,713	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	19,622	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	19,496	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	19,351	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	19,266	68,387

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.

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.

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.