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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	Romania	Burkina Faso	United Kingdom
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,414	11,075	58,946
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,262	11,405	59,149
Dec 31, 2001	275	22,106	11,828	59,377
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,931	12,380	59,631
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,828	12,829	59,903
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,704	13,178	60,217
Dec 31, 2005	280	21,571	13,540	60,682
Dec 31, 2006	281	21,443	13,917	61,098
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,129	14,309	61,593
Dec 31, 2008	283	20,779	14,722	62,100
Dec 31, 2009	285	20,607	15,152	62,539
Dec 31, 2010	286	20,485	15,600	63,040
Dec 31, 2011	287	20,385	16,064	63,567
Dec 31, 2012	288	20,296	16,563	63,989
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,224	17,072	64,392
Dec 31, 2014	290	20,151	17,575	64,885
Dec 31, 2015	291	20,055	18,094	65,400
Dec 31, 2016	291	19,938	18,621	65,941
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,823	19,157	66,335
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,713	19,698	66,732
Dec 31, 2019	294	19,622	20,242	67,095
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,496	20,788	67,380
Dec 31, 2021	295	19,351	21,336	67,651
Dec 31, 2022	295	19,266	21,889	68,093

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

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.

United Kingdom

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
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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