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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	Chile	Romania	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	15,140	22,414	273
Dec 31, 2000	15,340	22,262	274
Dec 31, 2001	15,513	22,106	275
Dec 31, 2002	15,686	21,931	276
Dec 31, 2003	15,859	21,828	278
Dec 31, 2004	16,029	21,704	279
Dec 31, 2005	16,222	21,571	280
Dec 31, 2006	16,364	21,443	281
Dec 31, 2007	16,536	21,129	282
Dec 31, 2008	16,700	20,779	283
Dec 31, 2009	16,864	20,607	285
Dec 31, 2010	16,999	20,485	286
Dec 31, 2011	17,189	20,385	287
Dec 31, 2012	17,378	20,296	288
Dec 31, 2013	17,545	20,224	289
Dec 31, 2014	17,720	20,151	290
Dec 31, 2015	17,904	20,055	291
Dec 31, 2016	18,099	19,938	291
Dec 31, 2017	18,350	19,823	292
Dec 31, 2018	18,681	19,713	293
Dec 31, 2019	19,035	19,622	294
Dec 31, 2020	19,385	19,496	294
Dec 31, 2021	19,604	19,351	295
Dec 31, 2022	19,715	19,266	295

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.

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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

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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; the database as a whole is cited above.