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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	Libya
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,460	22,414	4,993
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,499	22,262	5,116
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,554	22,106	5,237
Dec 31, 2002	276	3,610	21,931	5,357
Dec 31, 2003	278	3,665	21,828	5,476
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,721	21,704	5,595
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,777	21,571	5,715
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,853	21,443	5,835
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,954	21,129	5,967
Dec 31, 2008	283	4,036	20,779	6,115
Dec 31, 2009	285	4,082	20,607	6,270
Dec 31, 2010	286	4,097	20,485	6,432
Dec 31, 2011	287	4,115	20,385	6,144
Dec 31, 2012	288	4,206	20,296	5,849
Dec 31, 2013	289	4,696	20,224	6,010
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,365	20,151	6,163
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,640	20,055	6,291
Dec 31, 2016	291	5,688	19,938	6,415
Dec 31, 2017	292	5,680	19,823	6,549
Dec 31, 2018	293	5,562	19,713	6,689
Dec 31, 2019	294	5,331	19,622	6,826
Dec 31, 2020	294	4,986	19,496	6,960
Dec 31, 2021	295	4,802	19,351	7,088
Dec 31, 2022	295	4,713	19,266	7,169

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