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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	Saudi Arabia	Romania	Finland
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,964	22,414	5,166
Dec 31, 2000	274	20,426	22,262	5,176
Dec 31, 2001	275	20,956	22,106	5,188
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,549	21,931	5,201
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,189	21,828	5,213
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,850	21,704	5,228
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,516	21,571	5,246
Dec 31, 2006	281	24,178	21,443	5,266
Dec 31, 2007	282	24,841	21,129	5,289
Dec 31, 2008	283	25,518	20,779	5,313
Dec 31, 2009	285	26,227	20,607	5,339
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,068	20,485	5,363
Dec 31, 2011	287	27,810	20,385	5,388
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,516	20,296	5,414
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,220	20,224	5,439
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,936	20,151	5,463
Dec 31, 2015	291	30,646	20,055	5,481
Dec 31, 2016	291	31,360	19,938	5,495
Dec 31, 2017	292	32,184	19,823	5,508
Dec 31, 2018	293	32,869	19,713	5,516
Dec 31, 2019	294	33,661	19,622	5,522
Dec 31, 2020	294	34,542	19,496	5,531
Dec 31, 2021	295	33,651	19,351	5,542
Dec 31, 2022	295	34,081	19,266	5,556

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

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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.

Finland

1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.

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