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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	Bolivia
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,414	8,007
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,262	8,177
Dec 31, 2001	275	22,106	8,351
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,931	8,529
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,828	8,711
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,704	8,895
Dec 31, 2005	280	21,571	9,081
Dec 31, 2006	281	21,443	9,268
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,129	9,457
Dec 31, 2008	283	20,779	9,647
Dec 31, 2009	285	20,607	9,836
Dec 31, 2010	286	20,485	10,024
Dec 31, 2011	287	20,385	10,211
Dec 31, 2012	288	20,296	10,397
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,224	10,581
Dec 31, 2014	290	20,151	10,763
Dec 31, 2015	291	20,055	10,942
Dec 31, 2016	291	19,938	11,118
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,823	11,289
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,713	11,456
Dec 31, 2019	294	19,622	11,621
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,496	11,775
Dec 31, 2021	295	19,351	11,917
Dec 31, 2022	295	19,266	12,060

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.

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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.

Bolivia

1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128

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