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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	Malaysia
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,414	11,075	22,132
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,262	11,405	22,695
Dec 31, 2001	275	22,106	11,828	23,291
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,931	12,380	23,874
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,828	12,829	24,437
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,704	13,178	24,993
Dec 31, 2005	280	21,571	13,540	25,543
Dec 31, 2006	281	21,443	13,917	26,086
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,129	14,309	26,620
Dec 31, 2008	283	20,779	14,722	27,161
Dec 31, 2009	285	20,607	15,152	27,715
Dec 31, 2010	286	20,485	15,600	28,268
Dec 31, 2011	287	20,385	16,064	28,750
Dec 31, 2012	288	20,296	16,563	29,163
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,224	17,072	29,568
Dec 31, 2014	290	20,151	17,575	29,977
Dec 31, 2015	291	20,055	18,094	30,387
Dec 31, 2016	291	19,938	18,621	30,782
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,823	19,157	31,164
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,713	19,698	31,539
Dec 31, 2019	294	19,622	20,242	31,903
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,496	20,788	32,257
Dec 31, 2021	295	19,351	21,336	32,603
Dec 31, 2022	295	19,266	21,889	32,956

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.

Malaysia

1900-1939: Nazrin Shah, S. (2017). Charting the Economy: Early 20th Century Malaya and Contemporary Malaysian Contrasts, Oxford University Press

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