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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	Thailand	Romania	Iran
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	22,414	64,704
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	22,262	65,411
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	22,106	66,167
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	21,931	66,689
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	21,828	67,807
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	21,704	68,480
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	21,571	69,325
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	21,443	70,158
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	21,129	71,040
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	20,779	71,942
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	20,607	72,888
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	20,485	73,826
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	20,385	74,625
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	20,296	75,446
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	20,224	76,418
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	20,151	77,521
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	20,055	78,652
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	19,938	79,700
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	19,823	80,725
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	19,713	81,721
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	19,622	82,685
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	19,496	83,614
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	19,351	84,505
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	19,266	85,108

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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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.

Iran

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

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