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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	United Kingdom
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	22,414	58,946
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	22,262	59,149
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	22,106	59,377
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	21,931	59,631
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	21,828	59,903
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	21,704	60,217
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	21,571	60,682
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	21,443	61,098
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	21,129	61,593
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	20,779	62,100
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	20,607	62,539
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	20,485	63,040
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	20,385	63,567
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	20,296	63,989
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	20,224	64,392
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	20,151	64,885
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	20,055	65,400
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	19,938	65,941
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	19,823	66,335
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	19,713	66,732
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	19,622	67,095
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	19,496	67,380
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	19,351	67,651
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	19,266	68,093

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.

United Kingdom

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
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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