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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	Dominica	Burkina Faso	Romania	United States
Dec 31, 1999	70	11,075	22,414	279,040
Dec 31, 2000	71	11,405	22,262	282,162
Dec 31, 2001	71	11,828	22,106	284,969
Dec 31, 2002	72	12,380	21,931	287,625
Dec 31, 2003	72	12,829	21,828	290,108
Dec 31, 2004	72	13,178	21,704	292,805
Dec 31, 2005	72	13,540	21,571	295,517
Dec 31, 2006	72	13,917	21,443	298,380
Dec 31, 2007	72	14,309	21,129	301,231
Dec 31, 2008	73	14,722	20,779	304,094
Dec 31, 2009	73	15,152	20,607	306,772
Dec 31, 2010	73	15,600	20,485	309,327
Dec 31, 2011	73	16,064	20,385	311,583
Dec 31, 2012	73	16,563	20,296	313,878
Dec 31, 2013	73	17,072	20,224	316,060
Dec 31, 2014	73	17,575	20,151	318,386
Dec 31, 2015	74	18,094	20,055	320,739
Dec 31, 2016	74	18,621	19,938	323,072
Dec 31, 2017	74	19,157	19,823	325,122
Dec 31, 2018	74	19,698	19,713	326,838
Dec 31, 2019	75	20,242	19,622	328,330
Dec 31, 2020	75	20,788	19,496	331,512
Dec 31, 2021	76	21,336	19,351	332,032
Dec 31, 2022	76	21,889	19,266	333,288

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

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.

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).

No separate list is published for Dominica, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.