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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Romania	Panama
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,414	2,848
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,262	2,900
Dec 31, 2001	275	22,106	2,952
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,931	3,003
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,828	3,054
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,704	3,104
Dec 31, 2005	280	21,571	3,155
Dec 31, 2006	281	21,443	3,206
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,129	3,258
Dec 31, 2008	283	20,779	3,310
Dec 31, 2009	285	20,607	3,360
Dec 31, 2010	286	20,485	3,411
Dec 31, 2011	287	20,385	3,460
Dec 31, 2012	288	20,296	3,510
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,224	3,559
Dec 31, 2014	290	20,151	3,608
Dec 31, 2015	291	20,055	3,657
Dec 31, 2016	291	19,938	3,705
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,823	3,753
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,713	3,801
Dec 31, 2019	294	19,622	3,862
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,496	3,918
Dec 31, 2021	295	19,351	3,970
Dec 31, 2022	295	19,266	4,023

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.

Panama

1906–1945: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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