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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	Jordan	Romania	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	273	4,591	22,414	152
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,700	22,262	153
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,811	22,106	154
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,923	21,931	155
Dec 31, 2003	278	5,037	21,828	156
Dec 31, 2004	279	5,161	21,704	157
Dec 31, 2005	280	5,295	21,571	157
Dec 31, 2006	281	5,765	21,443	158
Dec 31, 2007	282	6,243	21,129	159
Dec 31, 2008	283	6,397	20,779	160
Dec 31, 2009	285	6,538	20,607	160
Dec 31, 2010	286	6,680	20,485	161
Dec 31, 2011	287	6,840	20,385	162
Dec 31, 2012	288	6,952	20,296	162
Dec 31, 2013	289	7,706	20,224	163
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,839	20,151	163
Dec 31, 2015	291	9,506	20,055	164
Dec 31, 2016	291	9,863	19,938	164
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,066	19,823	165
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,273	19,713	166
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,480	19,622	166
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,628	19,496	167
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,716	19,351	167
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,849	19,266	167

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

Jordan

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
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, St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.