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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	Syria	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	15,930	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	16,329	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	16,730	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	17,132	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	17,534	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	17,942	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	18,423	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	19,252	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	20,493	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	21,221	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	21,542	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	22,050	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	22,458	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	22,258	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	20,901	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	19,318	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	18,272	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	17,669	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	17,327	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	17,601	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	18,440	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	19,241	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	20,226	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	20,985	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.

Syria

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; the database as a whole is cited above.