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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Hungary	Romania	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	10,244	22,414	273
Dec 31, 2000	10,218	22,262	274
Dec 31, 2001	10,194	22,106	275
Dec 31, 2002	10,165	21,931	276
Dec 31, 2003	10,136	21,828	278
Dec 31, 2004	10,114	21,704	279
Dec 31, 2005	10,094	21,571	280
Dec 31, 2006	10,078	21,443	281
Dec 31, 2007	10,062	21,129	282
Dec 31, 2008	10,045	20,779	283
Dec 31, 2009	10,029	20,607	285
Dec 31, 2010	10,007	20,485	286
Dec 31, 2011	9,978	20,385	287
Dec 31, 2012	9,927	20,296	288
Dec 31, 2013	9,900	20,224	289
Dec 31, 2014	9,873	20,151	290
Dec 31, 2015	9,850	20,055	291
Dec 31, 2016	9,821	19,938	291
Dec 31, 2017	9,794	19,823	292
Dec 31, 2018	9,782	19,713	293
Dec 31, 2019	9,778	19,622	294
Dec 31, 2020	9,757	19,496	294
Dec 31, 2021	9,716	19,351	295
Dec 31, 2022	9,690	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

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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.