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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	Mongolia
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,414	2,433
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,262	2,461
Dec 31, 2001	275	22,106	2,489
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,931	2,519
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,828	2,547
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,704	2,574
Dec 31, 2005	280	21,571	2,602
Dec 31, 2006	281	21,443	2,633
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,129	2,666
Dec 31, 2008	283	20,779	2,702
Dec 31, 2009	285	20,607	2,741
Dec 31, 2010	286	20,485	2,783
Dec 31, 2011	287	20,385	2,827
Dec 31, 2012	288	20,296	2,870
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,224	2,912
Dec 31, 2014	290	20,151	2,953
Dec 31, 2015	291	20,055	2,993
Dec 31, 2016	291	19,938	3,031
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,823	3,068
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,713	3,103
Dec 31, 2019	294	19,622	3,171
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,496	3,231
Dec 31, 2021	295	19,351	3,284
Dec 31, 2022	295	19,266	3,333

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.

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