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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	Malaysia	Albania	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,132	3,085	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,695	3,065	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	275	23,291	3,047	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	276	23,874	3,038	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,437	3,026	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	279	24,993	3,014	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	280	25,543	2,998	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,086	2,979	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,620	2,957	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	283	27,161	2,934	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	285	27,715	2,915	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	286	28,268	2,900	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	287	28,750	2,892	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	288	29,163	2,888	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,568	2,882	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,977	2,876	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	291	30,387	2,868	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	291	30,782	2,863	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	292	31,164	2,861	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	293	31,539	2,854	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	294	31,903	2,842	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	294	32,257	2,825	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	295	32,603	2,799	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	295	32,956	2,787	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

Malaysia

1900-1939: Nazrin Shah, S. (2017). Charting the Economy: Early 20th Century Malaya and Contemporary Malaysian Contrasts, Oxford 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, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.