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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosRomaniaBurkina FasoSudan
27322,41411,07526,168
27422,26211,40526,771
27522,10611,82827,387
27621,93112,38028,017
27821,82812,82928,662
27921,70413,17829,321
28021,57113,54029,996
28121,44313,91730,686
28221,12914,30931,393
28320,77914,72232,137
28520,60715,15233,078
28620,48515,60033,891
28720,38516,06434,568
28820,29616,56335,293
28920,22417,07236,093
29020,15117,57537,058
29120,05518,09438,165
29119,93818,62139,294
29219,82319,15740,512
29319,71319,69841,764
29419,62220,24242,952
29419,49620,78844,121
29519,35121,33645,290
29519,26621,88946,498

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.

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