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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	Tajikistan
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,414	6,110
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,262	6,229
Dec 31, 2001	275	22,106	6,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,931	6,452
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,828	6,567
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,704	6,688
Dec 31, 2005	280	21,571	6,814
Dec 31, 2006	281	21,443	6,943
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,129	7,076
Dec 31, 2008	283	20,779	7,211
Dec 31, 2009	285	20,607	7,348
Dec 31, 2010	286	20,485	7,485
Dec 31, 2011	287	20,385	7,624
Dec 31, 2012	288	20,296	7,765
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,224	7,905
Dec 31, 2014	290	20,151	8,045
Dec 31, 2015	291	20,055	8,185
Dec 31, 2016	291	19,938	8,322
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,823	8,458
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,713	8,593
Dec 31, 2019	294	19,622	8,727
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,496	8,860
Dec 31, 2021	295	19,351	8,990
Dec 31, 2022	295	19,266	9,177

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, Tajikistan; the database as a whole is cited above.