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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	Venezuela	Romania	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	273	23,188	22,414	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	274	23,601	22,262	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	275	24,011	22,106	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	276	24,425	21,931	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,841	21,828	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	279	25,255	21,704	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	280	25,667	21,571	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,079	21,443	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,589	21,129	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	283	27,098	20,779	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	285	27,510	20,607	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,920	20,485	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	287	28,327	20,385	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,722	20,296	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,111	20,224	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,418	20,151	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	291	29,693	20,055	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	291	29,961	19,938	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	292	29,856	19,823	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	293	28,858	19,713	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	294	27,921	19,622	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	294	27,871	19,496	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	295	28,316	19,351	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	295	28,418	19,266	6,291

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

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.