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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	Lebanon	Romania	Cape Verde
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,460	22,414	422
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,499	22,262	430
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,554	22,106	438
Dec 31, 2002	276	3,610	21,931	447
Dec 31, 2003	278	3,665	21,828	455
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,721	21,704	463
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,777	21,571	471
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,853	21,443	478
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,954	21,129	486
Dec 31, 2008	283	4,036	20,779	494
Dec 31, 2009	285	4,082	20,607	501
Dec 31, 2010	286	4,097	20,485	509
Dec 31, 2011	287	4,115	20,385	516
Dec 31, 2012	288	4,206	20,296	524
Dec 31, 2013	289	4,696	20,224	531
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,365	20,151	539
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,640	20,055	546
Dec 31, 2016	291	5,688	19,938	553
Dec 31, 2017	292	5,680	19,823	562
Dec 31, 2018	293	5,562	19,713	568
Dec 31, 2019	294	5,331	19,622	574
Dec 31, 2020	294	4,986	19,496	580
Dec 31, 2021	295	4,802	19,351	585
Dec 31, 2022	295	4,713	19,266	590

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

Lebanon

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, Cape Verde; the database as a whole is cited above.