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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	Barbados	Saudi Arabia	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	277	273	19,964	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	281	274	20,426	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	285	275	20,956	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	288	276	21,549	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	289	278	22,189	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	293	279	22,850	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	296	280	23,516	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	304	281	24,178	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	311	282	24,841	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	319	283	25,518	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	319	285	26,227	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	318	286	27,068	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	319	287	27,810	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	321	288	28,516	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	324	289	29,220	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	327	290	29,936	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	331	291	30,646	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	335	291	31,360	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	343	292	32,184	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	353	293	32,869	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	361	294	33,661	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	366	294	34,542	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	372	295	33,651	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	380	295	34,081	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.

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.

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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.