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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	Colombia	Albania	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,365	3,085	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,911	3,065	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	285	39,411	3,047	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	288	39,918	3,038	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	289	40,416	3,026	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	293	40,899	3,014	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	296	41,374	2,998	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	304	41,862	2,979	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	311	42,324	2,957	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	319	42,781	2,934	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	319	43,264	2,915	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	318	43,771	2,900	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	319	44,225	2,892	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	321	44,660	2,888	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	324	45,081	2,882	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	327	45,846	2,876	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	331	46,290	2,868	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	335	46,796	2,863	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	343	47,385	2,861	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	353	48,222	2,854	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	361	49,326	2,842	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	366	50,283	2,825	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	372	50,978	2,799	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	380	51,332	2,787	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.

Colombia

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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 Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.