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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Barbados	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	273	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	274	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	275	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	276	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	278	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	279	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	280	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	281	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	282	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	283	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	285	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	286	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	287	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	288	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	289	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	290	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	291	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	291	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	292	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	293	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	294	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	294	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	295	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	295	19,266

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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.