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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	Romania	Belgium	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	70	22,414	10,227	273
Dec 31, 2000	71	22,262	10,252	274
Dec 31, 2001	71	22,106	10,288	275
Dec 31, 2002	72	21,931	10,334	276
Dec 31, 2003	72	21,828	10,377	278
Dec 31, 2004	72	21,704	10,422	279
Dec 31, 2005	72	21,571	10,480	280
Dec 31, 2006	72	21,443	10,549	281
Dec 31, 2007	72	21,129	10,627	282
Dec 31, 2008	73	20,779	10,711	283
Dec 31, 2009	73	20,607	10,797	285
Dec 31, 2010	73	20,485	10,897	286
Dec 31, 2011	73	20,385	11,039	287
Dec 31, 2012	73	20,296	11,108	288
Dec 31, 2013	73	20,224	11,160	289
Dec 31, 2014	73	20,151	11,210	290
Dec 31, 2015	74	20,055	11,275	291
Dec 31, 2016	74	19,938	11,332	291
Dec 31, 2017	74	19,823	11,376	292
Dec 31, 2018	74	19,713	11,429	293
Dec 31, 2019	75	19,622	11,491	294
Dec 31, 2020	75	19,496	11,546	294
Dec 31, 2021	76	19,351	11,594	295
Dec 31, 2022	76	19,266	11,695	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.

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.

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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