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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	Singapore	Romania	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,959	22,414	627
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,028	22,262	659
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,138	22,106	691
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,176	21,931	724
Dec 31, 2003	278	4,115	21,828	757
Dec 31, 2004	279	4,167	21,704	850
Dec 31, 2005	280	4,266	21,571	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	281	4,401	21,443	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	282	4,589	21,129	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	283	4,839	20,779	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	285	4,988	20,607	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	286	5,077	20,485	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	287	5,184	20,385	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	288	5,312	20,296	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	289	5,399	20,224	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,470	20,151	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,535	20,055	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	291	5,607	19,938	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	292	5,612	19,823	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	293	5,639	19,713	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	294	5,704	19,622	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	294	5,686	19,496	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	295	5,716	19,351	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	295	5,750	19,266	2,559

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

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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