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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	Cambodia	Romania	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,122	22,414	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,317	22,262	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,504	22,106	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,691	21,931	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	278	12,881	21,828	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,076	21,704	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,276	21,571	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,461	21,443	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	282	13,630	21,129	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	283	13,808	20,779	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	285	13,990	20,607	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,162	20,485	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	287	14,322	20,385	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	288	14,480	20,296	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	289	14,637	20,224	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	290	14,793	20,151	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	291	14,994	20,055	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	291	15,238	19,938	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	292	15,480	19,823	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	293	15,717	19,713	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	294	15,944	19,622	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,149	19,496	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	295	16,338	19,351	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	295	16,514	19,266	34,081

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

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.

Saudi Arabia

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

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