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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	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	273	2,741	22,414	387
Dec 31, 2000	274	2,847	22,262	390
Dec 31, 2001	275	2,917	22,106	393
Dec 31, 2002	276	2,978	21,931	396
Dec 31, 2003	278	2,983	21,828	398
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,005	21,704	401
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,138	21,571	404
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,311	21,443	405
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,469	21,129	406
Dec 31, 2008	283	3,603	20,779	409
Dec 31, 2009	285	3,708	20,607	412
Dec 31, 2010	286	3,817	20,485	414
Dec 31, 2011	287	3,984	20,385	416
Dec 31, 2012	288	4,141	20,296	420
Dec 31, 2013	289	4,244	20,224	426
Dec 31, 2014	290	4,348	20,151	435
Dec 31, 2015	291	4,460	20,055	445
Dec 31, 2016	291	4,576	19,938	455
Dec 31, 2017	292	4,689	19,823	468
Dec 31, 2018	293	4,810	19,713	485
Dec 31, 2019	294	4,904	19,622	504
Dec 31, 2020	294	5,005	19,496	516
Dec 31, 2021	295	5,109	19,351	518
Dec 31, 2022	295	5,216	19,266	530

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.

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