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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	North Macedonia	Romania	Cape Verde
Dec 31, 1999	273	2,006	22,414	422
Dec 31, 2000	274	2,017	22,262	430
Dec 31, 2001	275	2,026	22,106	438
Dec 31, 2002	276	2,011	21,931	447
Dec 31, 2003	278	2,018	21,828	455
Dec 31, 2004	279	2,024	21,704	463
Dec 31, 2005	280	2,028	21,571	471
Dec 31, 2006	281	2,031	21,443	478
Dec 31, 2007	282	2,035	21,129	486
Dec 31, 2008	283	2,038	20,779	494
Dec 31, 2009	285	2,042	20,607	501
Dec 31, 2010	286	2,046	20,485	509
Dec 31, 2011	287	2,049	20,385	516
Dec 31, 2012	288	2,052	20,296	524
Dec 31, 2013	289	2,055	20,224	531
Dec 31, 2014	290	2,058	20,151	539
Dec 31, 2015	291	2,061	20,055	546
Dec 31, 2016	291	2,063	19,938	553
Dec 31, 2017	292	2,065	19,823	562
Dec 31, 2018	293	2,067	19,713	568
Dec 31, 2019	294	2,068	19,622	574
Dec 31, 2020	294	2,065	19,496	580
Dec 31, 2021	295	2,057	19,351	585
Dec 31, 2022	295	2,048	19,266	590

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

North Macedonia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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, Cape Verde; the database as a whole is cited above.