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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	Egypt	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,414	66,001	387
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,262	67,377	390
Dec 31, 2001	275	22,106	68,790	393
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,931	70,269	396
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,828	71,785	398
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,704	73,298	401
Dec 31, 2005	280	21,571	74,832	404
Dec 31, 2006	281	21,443	76,432	405
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,129	78,140	406
Dec 31, 2008	283	20,779	79,945	409
Dec 31, 2009	285	20,607	81,840	412
Dec 31, 2010	286	20,485	83,844	414
Dec 31, 2011	287	20,385	85,969	416
Dec 31, 2012	288	20,296	88,198	420
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,224	90,566	426
Dec 31, 2014	290	20,151	93,009	435
Dec 31, 2015	291	20,055	95,432	445
Dec 31, 2016	291	19,938	97,882	455
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,823	100,303	468
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,713	102,617	485
Dec 31, 2019	294	19,622	104,816	504
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,496	106,893	516
Dec 31, 2021	295	19,351	108,871	518
Dec 31, 2022	295	19,266	110,593	530

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.

Egypt

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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