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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosSerbiaRomaniaDenmark
2737,61122,4145,322
2747,58722,2625,339
2757,57422,1065,358
2767,57021,9315,377
2787,55121,8285,391
2797,53321,7045,404
2807,51021,5715,420
2817,48121,4435,438
2827,45121,1295,461
2837,41920,7795,494
2857,38920,6075,524
2867,36020,4855,548
2877,30420,3855,571
2887,26920,2965,592
2897,23420,2245,614
2907,19920,1515,644
2917,16220,0555,683
2917,12419,9385,730
2927,08719,8235,766
2937,04819,7135,795
2947,01019,6225,818
2946,96419,4965,831
2956,89819,3515,855
2956,83319,2665,907

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

Serbia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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