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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	New Zealand
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,414	3,890
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,262	3,912
Dec 31, 2001	275	22,106	3,947
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,931	4,018
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,828	4,094
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,704	4,151
Dec 31, 2005	280	21,571	4,198
Dec 31, 2006	281	21,443	4,248
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,129	4,287
Dec 31, 2008	283	20,779	4,323
Dec 31, 2009	285	20,607	4,370
Dec 31, 2010	286	20,485	4,416
Dec 31, 2011	287	20,385	4,446
Dec 31, 2012	288	20,296	4,471
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,224	4,516
Dec 31, 2014	290	20,151	4,597
Dec 31, 2015	291	20,055	4,695
Dec 31, 2016	291	19,938	4,800
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,823	4,897
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,713	4,982
Dec 31, 2019	294	19,622	5,074
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,496	5,159
Dec 31, 2021	295	19,351	5,188
Dec 31, 2022	295	19,266	5,245

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.

New Zealand

1870-1939: K. Rankin, "New Zealand's Gross National Product: 1859-1939, Review of Income and Wealth, March 1992, pp. 60-1., 1870 amended to include indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita)
1939-50: C. Clark, The Conditions of Economic Progress, third edition, Macmillan, London, 1957, pp. 171-2

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