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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosLebanonRomaniaHaiti
2733,46022,4148,121
2743,49922,2628,279
2753,55422,1068,430
2763,61021,9318,580
2783,66521,8288,739
2793,72121,7048,900
2803,77721,5719,061
2813,85321,4439,216
2823,95421,1299,364
2834,03620,7799,508
2854,08220,6079,652
2864,09720,4859,553
2874,11520,3859,670
2884,20620,2969,793
2894,69620,2249,922
2905,36520,15110,047
2915,64020,05510,254
2915,68819,93810,486
2925,68019,82310,647
2935,56219,71310,788
2945,33119,62210,933
2944,98619,49611,077
2954,80219,35111,215
2954,71319,26611,349

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