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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	Syria	Romania	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	273	15,930	22,414	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	274	16,329	22,262	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	275	16,730	22,106	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	276	17,132	21,931	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	278	17,534	21,828	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	279	17,942	21,704	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	280	18,423	21,571	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	281	19,252	21,443	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	282	20,493	21,129	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	283	21,221	20,779	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	285	21,542	20,607	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	286	22,050	20,485	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	287	22,458	20,385	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	288	22,258	20,296	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,901	20,224	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	290	19,318	20,151	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	291	18,272	20,055	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	291	17,669	19,938	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	292	17,327	19,823	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	293	17,601	19,713	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	294	18,440	19,622	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,241	19,496	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	295	20,226	19,351	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	295	20,985	19,266	7,432

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

Syria

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.

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