Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Four countries are being compared, the most the chart can show clearly. Remove one to add another.

Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Burkina Faso	Romania	Botswana
Dec 31, 1999	277	11,075	22,414	1,630
Dec 31, 2000	281	11,405	22,262	1,665
Dec 31, 2001	285	11,828	22,106	1,698
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,380	21,931	1,730
Dec 31, 2003	289	12,829	21,828	1,761
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,178	21,704	1,792
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,540	21,571	1,824
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,917	21,443	1,857
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,309	21,129	1,890
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,722	20,779	1,923
Dec 31, 2009	319	15,152	20,607	1,956
Dec 31, 2010	318	15,600	20,485	1,990
Dec 31, 2011	319	16,064	20,385	2,023
Dec 31, 2012	321	16,563	20,296	2,057
Dec 31, 2013	324	17,072	20,224	2,091
Dec 31, 2014	327	17,575	20,151	2,125
Dec 31, 2015	331	18,094	20,055	2,159
Dec 31, 2016	335	18,621	19,938	2,194
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,157	19,823	2,228
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,698	19,713	2,262
Dec 31, 2019	361	20,242	19,622	2,297
Dec 31, 2020	366	20,788	19,496	2,331
Dec 31, 2021	372	21,336	19,351	2,365
Dec 31, 2022	380	21,889	19,266	2,403

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.

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 Burkina Faso, Botswana; the database as a whole is cited above.