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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	Liberia	Romania	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	273	2,741	22,414	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	274	2,847	22,262	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	275	2,917	22,106	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	276	2,978	21,931	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	278	2,983	21,828	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,005	21,704	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,138	21,571	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,311	21,443	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,469	21,129	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	283	3,603	20,779	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	285	3,708	20,607	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	286	3,817	20,485	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	287	3,984	20,385	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	288	4,141	20,296	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	289	4,244	20,224	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	290	4,348	20,151	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	291	4,460	20,055	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	291	4,576	19,938	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	292	4,689	19,823	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	293	4,810	19,713	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	294	4,904	19,622	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	294	5,005	19,496	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	295	5,109	19,351	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	295	5,216	19,266	4,713

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

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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.

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

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