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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	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	22,414	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	22,262	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	22,106	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	21,931	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	21,828	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	21,704	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	21,571	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	21,443	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	21,129	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	20,779	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	20,607	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	20,485	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	20,385	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	20,296	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	20,224	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	20,151	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	20,055	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	19,938	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	19,823	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	19,713	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	19,622	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	19,496	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	19,351	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	19,266	5,458

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.

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

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