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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	United States	Romania	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	273	279,040	22,414	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	274	282,162	22,262	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	275	284,969	22,106	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	287,625	21,931	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	278	290,108	21,828	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	279	292,805	21,704	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	280	295,517	21,571	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	281	298,380	21,443	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	282	301,231	21,129	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	283	304,094	20,779	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	285	306,772	20,607	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	286	309,327	20,485	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	287	311,583	20,385	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	288	313,878	20,296	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	289	316,060	20,224	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	290	318,386	20,151	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	291	320,739	20,055	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	291	323,072	19,938	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	292	325,122	19,823	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	293	326,838	19,713	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	294	328,330	19,622	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	294	331,512	19,496	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	295	332,032	19,351	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	295	333,288	19,266	10,200

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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.

Portugal

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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