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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	Laos	Hungary	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	273	5,286	10,244	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	274	5,397	10,218	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	275	5,499	10,194	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	276	5,578	10,165	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	278	5,654	10,136	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	279	5,746	10,114	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	280	5,836	10,094	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	281	5,931	10,078	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	282	6,035	10,062	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	283	6,145	10,045	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	285	6,257	10,029	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	286	6,368	10,007	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	287	6,477	9,978	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	288	6,586	9,927	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	289	6,695	9,900	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	290	6,804	9,873	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	291	6,912	9,850	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	291	7,019	9,821	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	292	7,127	9,794	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	293	7,234	9,782	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	294	7,343	9,778	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	294	7,452	9,757	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	295	7,560	9,716	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	295	7,666	9,690	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

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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