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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	Indonesia	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,414	208,105	433
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,262	211,408	438
Dec 31, 2001	275	22,106	214,475	443
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,931	217,516	448
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,828	220,549	454
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,704	224,473	460
Dec 31, 2005	280	21,571	227,534	467
Dec 31, 2006	281	21,443	230,739	474
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,129	233,918	482
Dec 31, 2008	283	20,779	237,056	491
Dec 31, 2009	285	20,607	240,140	500
Dec 31, 2010	286	20,485	243,171	509
Dec 31, 2011	287	20,385	246,150	521
Dec 31, 2012	288	20,296	249,086	533
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,224	251,947	547
Dec 31, 2014	290	20,151	254,702	560
Dec 31, 2015	291	20,055	257,351	571
Dec 31, 2016	291	19,938	259,906	586
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,823	262,379	599
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,713	264,789	610
Dec 31, 2019	294	19,622	267,142	623
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,496	269,437	633
Dec 31, 2021	295	19,351	271,674	643
Dec 31, 2022	295	19,266	273,409	651

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.

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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