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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	Poland	Romania	São Tomé & Príncipe
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	22,414	138
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	22,262	141
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	22,106	144
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	21,931	147
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	21,828	151
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	21,704	154
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	21,571	158
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	21,443	161
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	21,129	165
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	20,779	168
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	20,607	172
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	20,485	176
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	20,385	180
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	20,296	183
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	20,224	187
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	20,151	190
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	20,055	194
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	19,938	198
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	19,823	201
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	19,713	204
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	19,622	208
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	19,496	212
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	19,351	216
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	19,266	220

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

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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, São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.