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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	Ukraine
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,414	49,491
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,262	49,014
Dec 31, 2001	275	22,106	48,520
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,931	48,074
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,828	47,692
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,704	47,342
Dec 31, 2005	280	21,571	47,003
Dec 31, 2006	281	21,443	46,685
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,129	46,407
Dec 31, 2008	283	20,779	46,156
Dec 31, 2009	285	20,607	45,951
Dec 31, 2010	286	20,485	45,768
Dec 31, 2011	287	20,385	45,604
Dec 31, 2012	288	20,296	45,492
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,224	45,389
Dec 31, 2014	290	20,151	44,944
Dec 31, 2015	291	20,055	44,429
Dec 31, 2016	291	19,938	44,208
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,823	44,029
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,713	43,944
Dec 31, 2019	294	19,622	43,951
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,496	43,904
Dec 31, 2021	295	19,351	43,746
Dec 31, 2022	295	19,266	39,897

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