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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	Japan	Romania	Mali
Dec 31, 1999	273	126,512	22,414	10,596
Dec 31, 2000	274	126,755	22,262	10,833
Dec 31, 2001	275	127,056	22,106	10,890
Dec 31, 2002	276	127,324	21,931	11,007
Dec 31, 2003	278	127,558	21,828	11,307
Dec 31, 2004	279	127,658	21,704	11,579
Dec 31, 2005	280	127,679	21,571	11,804
Dec 31, 2006	281	127,762	21,443	12,043
Dec 31, 2007	282	127,904	21,129	12,337
Dec 31, 2008	283	127,969	20,779	12,657
Dec 31, 2009	285	127,958	20,607	12,986
Dec 31, 2010	286	127,967	20,485	13,325
Dec 31, 2011	287	127,755	20,385	13,679
Dec 31, 2012	288	127,476	20,296	14,040
Dec 31, 2013	289	127,257	20,224	14,412
Dec 31, 2014	290	127,186	20,151	14,803
Dec 31, 2015	291	127,034	20,055	15,210
Dec 31, 2016	291	126,857	19,938	15,629
Dec 31, 2017	292	126,631	19,823	16,060
Dec 31, 2018	293	126,368	19,713	16,507
Dec 31, 2019	294	126,092	19,622	16,967
Dec 31, 2020	294	125,634	19,496	17,442
Dec 31, 2021	295	125,427	19,351	17,930
Dec 31, 2022	295	124,762	19,266	18,494

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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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, Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.