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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	Peru	Romania	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	273	20,963	22,414	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	274	21,291	22,262	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	275	21,631	22,106	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,980	21,931	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,339	21,828	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,707	21,704	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,055	21,571	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	281	23,380	21,443	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	282	23,708	21,129	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	283	23,944	20,779	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	285	24,087	20,607	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	286	24,228	20,485	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	287	24,364	20,385	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	288	24,491	20,296	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	289	24,607	20,224	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	290	24,714	20,151	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	291	24,812	20,055	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,904	19,938	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,999	19,823	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	293	25,403	19,713	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,966	19,622	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	294	26,308	19,496	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	295	26,508	19,351	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	295	26,771	19,266	11,695

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

Peru

1600–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Seminario, B. (2015). El Desarrallo de la Economía Peruana en la Era Moderna, Universidad de Pacifico, Lima
1870-1901: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P, Table A2
1900-1913: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1913-1941: C.A. Bolona Behr, "Tariff Policies in Peru, 1880-1980", Ph.D. thesis, Oxford University, 1981;
1942-1950: "Cuadros del producto interno bruto en dollares de 1950", CEPAL, Santiago, October 1962, mimeographed;
1945-1950: Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, CEPAL, Santiago, 1978.

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.

Belgium

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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