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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	Sri Lanka
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,460	22,414	19,354
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,499	22,262	19,610
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,554	22,106	19,838
Dec 31, 2002	276	3,610	21,931	20,060
Dec 31, 2003	278	3,665	21,828	20,297
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,721	21,704	20,529
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,777	21,571	20,703
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,853	21,443	20,917
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,954	21,129	21,120
Dec 31, 2008	283	4,036	20,779	21,315
Dec 31, 2009	285	4,082	20,607	21,503
Dec 31, 2010	286	4,097	20,485	21,713
Dec 31, 2011	287	4,115	20,385	21,918
Dec 31, 2012	288	4,206	20,296	22,120
Dec 31, 2013	289	4,696	20,224	22,320
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,365	20,151	22,517
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,640	20,055	22,711
Dec 31, 2016	291	5,688	19,938	22,899
Dec 31, 2017	292	5,680	19,823	23,080
Dec 31, 2018	293	5,562	19,713	23,254
Dec 31, 2019	294	5,331	19,622	23,420
Dec 31, 2020	294	4,986	19,496	23,579
Dec 31, 2021	295	4,802	19,351	23,732
Dec 31, 2022	295	4,713	19,266	23,796

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, Sri Lanka; the database as a whole is cited above.