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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	Ecuador	Iceland
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,414	12,268	277
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,262	12,446	281
Dec 31, 2001	275	22,106	12,629	285
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,931	12,827	288
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,828	13,074	289
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,704	13,368	293
Dec 31, 2005	280	21,571	13,661	296
Dec 31, 2006	281	21,443	13,915	304
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,129	14,133	311
Dec 31, 2008	283	20,779	14,352	319
Dec 31, 2009	285	20,607	14,569	319
Dec 31, 2010	286	20,485	14,786	318
Dec 31, 2011	287	20,385	15,002	319
Dec 31, 2012	288	20,296	15,218	321
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,224	15,433	324
Dec 31, 2014	290	20,151	15,647	327
Dec 31, 2015	291	20,055	15,860	331
Dec 31, 2016	291	19,938	16,072	335
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,823	16,282	343
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,713	16,489	353
Dec 31, 2019	294	19,622	16,693	361
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,496	16,894	366
Dec 31, 2021	295	19,351	17,093	372
Dec 31, 2022	295	19,266	17,288	380

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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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