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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	Namibia
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	22,414	1,841
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	22,262	1,893
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	22,106	1,945
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	21,931	1,981
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	21,828	2,008
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	21,704	2,034
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	21,571	2,060
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	21,443	2,086
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	21,129	2,113
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	20,779	2,141
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	20,607	2,170
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	20,485	2,201
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	20,385	2,232
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	20,296	2,268
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	20,224	2,312
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	20,151	2,360
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	20,055	2,408
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	19,938	2,456
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	19,823	2,505
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	19,713	2,554
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	19,622	2,602
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	19,496	2,651
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	19,351	2,700
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	19,266	2,739

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.

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