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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	Luxembourg	Israel	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	273	433	5,927	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	274	438	6,088	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	275	443	6,236	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	276	448	6,366	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	278	454	6,484	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	279	460	6,603	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	280	467	6,723	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	281	474	6,846	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	282	482	6,972	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	283	491	7,100	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	285	500	7,226	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	286	509	7,360	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	287	521	7,498	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	288	533	7,637	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	289	547	7,781	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	290	560	7,931	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	291	571	8,091	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	291	586	8,251	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	292	599	8,412	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	293	610	8,576	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	294	623	8,742	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	294	633	8,899	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	295	643	9,047	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	295	651	9,188	19,266

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

Israel

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91

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