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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	Jordan	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,414	4,591	152
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,262	4,700	153
Dec 31, 2001	275	22,106	4,811	154
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,931	4,923	155
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,828	5,037	156
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,704	5,161	157
Dec 31, 2005	280	21,571	5,295	157
Dec 31, 2006	281	21,443	5,765	158
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,129	6,243	159
Dec 31, 2008	283	20,779	6,397	160
Dec 31, 2009	285	20,607	6,538	160
Dec 31, 2010	286	20,485	6,680	161
Dec 31, 2011	287	20,385	6,840	162
Dec 31, 2012	288	20,296	6,952	162
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,224	7,706	163
Dec 31, 2014	290	20,151	8,839	163
Dec 31, 2015	291	20,055	9,506	164
Dec 31, 2016	291	19,938	9,863	164
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,823	10,066	165
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,713	10,273	166
Dec 31, 2019	294	19,622	10,480	166
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,496	10,628	167
Dec 31, 2021	295	19,351	10,716	167
Dec 31, 2022	295	19,266	10,849	167

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.

Jordan

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
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, St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.