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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	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	273	20,963	22,414	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	274	21,291	22,262	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	275	21,631	22,106	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,980	21,931	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,339	21,828	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,707	21,704	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,055	21,571	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	281	23,380	21,443	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	282	23,708	21,129	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	283	23,944	20,779	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	285	24,087	20,607	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	286	24,228	20,485	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	287	24,364	20,385	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	288	24,491	20,296	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	289	24,607	20,224	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	290	24,714	20,151	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	291	24,812	20,055	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,904	19,938	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,999	19,823	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	293	25,403	19,713	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,966	19,622	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	294	26,308	19,496	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	295	26,508	19,351	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	295	26,771	19,266	6,291

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.

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