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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	Ecuador	Romania	North Macedonia
Dec 31, 1999	277	12,268	22,414	2,006
Dec 31, 2000	281	12,446	22,262	2,017
Dec 31, 2001	285	12,629	22,106	2,026
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,827	21,931	2,011
Dec 31, 2003	289	13,074	21,828	2,018
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,368	21,704	2,024
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,661	21,571	2,028
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,915	21,443	2,031
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,133	21,129	2,035
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,352	20,779	2,038
Dec 31, 2009	319	14,569	20,607	2,042
Dec 31, 2010	318	14,786	20,485	2,046
Dec 31, 2011	319	15,002	20,385	2,049
Dec 31, 2012	321	15,218	20,296	2,052
Dec 31, 2013	324	15,433	20,224	2,055
Dec 31, 2014	327	15,647	20,151	2,058
Dec 31, 2015	331	15,860	20,055	2,061
Dec 31, 2016	335	16,072	19,938	2,063
Dec 31, 2017	343	16,282	19,823	2,065
Dec 31, 2018	353	16,489	19,713	2,067
Dec 31, 2019	361	16,693	19,622	2,068
Dec 31, 2020	366	16,894	19,496	2,065
Dec 31, 2021	372	17,093	19,351	2,057
Dec 31, 2022	380	17,288	19,266	2,048

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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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.

North Macedonia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project