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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	Iceland	Austria	Romania	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	277	8,039	22,414	627
Dec 31, 2000	281	8,059	22,262	659
Dec 31, 2001	285	8,090	22,106	691
Dec 31, 2002	288	8,130	21,931	724
Dec 31, 2003	289	8,166	21,828	757
Dec 31, 2004	293	8,217	21,704	850
Dec 31, 2005	296	8,274	21,571	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	304	8,317	21,443	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	311	8,344	21,129	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	319	8,370	20,779	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	319	8,390	20,607	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	318	8,410	20,485	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	319	8,438	20,385	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	321	8,476	20,296	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	324	8,527	20,224	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	327	8,594	20,151	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	331	8,680	20,055	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	335	8,791	19,938	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	343	8,847	19,823	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	353	8,890	19,713	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	361	8,930	19,622	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	366	8,969	19,496	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	372	9,004	19,351	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	380	9,107	19,266	2,559

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

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 Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.