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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 BarbadosLebanonRomaniaRussia
2733,46022,414147,218
2743,49922,262146,600
2753,55422,106145,980
2763,61021,931145,310
2783,66521,828144,652
2793,72121,704144,071
2803,77721,571143,522
2813,85321,443143,053
2823,95421,129142,809
2834,03620,779142,746
2854,08220,607142,789
2864,09720,485142,853
2874,11520,385142,964
2884,20620,296143,205
2894,69620,224143,510
2905,36520,151146,094
2915,64020,055146,410
2915,68819,938146,678
2925,68019,823146,846
2935,56219,713146,834
2945,33119,622146,768
2944,98619,496146,463
2954,80219,351145,849
2954,71319,266146,693

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.

Russia

  • 1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.