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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	Serbia	Romania	Estonia
Dec 31, 1999	273	7,611	22,414	1,378
Dec 31, 2000	274	7,587	22,262	1,400
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,574	22,106	1,391
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,570	21,931	1,382
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,551	21,828	1,374
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,533	21,704	1,365
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,510	21,571	1,357
Dec 31, 2006	281	7,481	21,443	1,349
Dec 31, 2007	282	7,451	21,129	1,341
Dec 31, 2008	283	7,419	20,779	1,337
Dec 31, 2009	285	7,389	20,607	1,334
Dec 31, 2010	286	7,360	20,485	1,332
Dec 31, 2011	287	7,304	20,385	1,328
Dec 31, 2012	288	7,269	20,296	1,324
Dec 31, 2013	289	7,234	20,224	1,319
Dec 31, 2014	290	7,199	20,151	1,314
Dec 31, 2015	291	7,162	20,055	1,312
Dec 31, 2016	291	7,124	19,938	1,314
Dec 31, 2017	292	7,087	19,823	1,314
Dec 31, 2018	293	7,048	19,713	1,318
Dec 31, 2019	294	7,010	19,622	1,323
Dec 31, 2020	294	6,964	19,496	1,327
Dec 31, 2021	295	6,898	19,351	1,329
Dec 31, 2022	295	6,833	19,266	1,330

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