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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	Oman	India	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	273	2,348	1,000,965	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	274	2,403	1,018,667	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	275	2,457	1,036,256	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	276	2,510	1,053,663	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	278	2,562	1,070,882	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	279	2,613	1,087,941	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	280	2,663	1,104,803	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	281	2,713	1,121,354	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	282	2,764	1,137,576	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	283	2,816	1,153,547	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	285	2,871	1,169,239	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	286	2,928	1,184,638	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	287	2,986	1,199,810	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	288	3,047	1,214,839	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	289	3,110	1,229,765	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	290	3,174	1,244,577	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	291	3,240	1,259,236	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	291	3,307	1,273,693	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	292	3,375	1,287,902	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	293	3,444	1,301,821	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	294	3,512	1,315,530	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	294	3,582	1,329,062	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	295	3,651	1,339,912	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	295	3,696	1,349,060	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

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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