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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	Poland	Seychelles
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,414	38,358	78
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,262	38,344	79
Dec 31, 2001	275	22,106	38,339	80
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,931	38,320	81
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,828	38,283	82
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,704	38,268	83
Dec 31, 2005	280	21,571	38,249	84
Dec 31, 2006	281	21,443	38,220	85
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,129	38,204	86
Dec 31, 2008	283	20,779	38,204	87
Dec 31, 2009	285	20,607	38,572	87
Dec 31, 2010	286	20,485	38,606	88
Dec 31, 2011	287	20,385	38,615	89
Dec 31, 2012	288	20,296	38,623	90
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,224	38,591	91
Dec 31, 2014	290	20,151	38,573	92
Dec 31, 2015	291	20,055	38,544	92
Dec 31, 2016	291	19,938	38,516	93
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,823	38,511	94
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,713	38,502	95
Dec 31, 2019	294	19,622	38,475	96
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,496	38,443	97
Dec 31, 2021	295	19,351	38,250	98
Dec 31, 2022	295	19,266	37,914	98

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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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