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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	Malta	Romania	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	273	387	22,414	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	274	390	22,262	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	275	393	22,106	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	276	396	21,931	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	278	398	21,828	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	401	21,704	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	280	404	21,571	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	281	405	21,443	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	282	406	21,129	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	283	409	20,779	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	285	412	20,607	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	286	414	20,485	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	287	416	20,385	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	288	420	20,296	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	289	426	20,224	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	290	435	20,151	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	291	445	20,055	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	291	455	19,938	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	292	468	19,823	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	293	485	19,713	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	294	504	19,622	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	294	516	19,496	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	295	518	19,351	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	295	530	19,266	46,736

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

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.

Argentina

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

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