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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	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	273	2,006	22,414	627
Dec 31, 2000	274	2,017	22,262	659
Dec 31, 2001	275	2,026	22,106	691
Dec 31, 2002	276	2,011	21,931	724
Dec 31, 2003	278	2,018	21,828	757
Dec 31, 2004	279	2,024	21,704	850
Dec 31, 2005	280	2,028	21,571	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	281	2,031	21,443	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	282	2,035	21,129	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	283	2,038	20,779	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	285	2,042	20,607	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	286	2,046	20,485	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	287	2,049	20,385	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	288	2,052	20,296	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	289	2,055	20,224	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	290	2,058	20,151	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	291	2,061	20,055	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	291	2,063	19,938	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	292	2,065	19,823	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	293	2,067	19,713	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	294	2,068	19,622	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	294	2,065	19,496	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	295	2,057	19,351	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	295	2,048	19,266	2,559

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