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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	Iran	Albania	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	277	64,704	3,085	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	281	65,411	3,065	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	285	66,167	3,047	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	288	66,689	3,038	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	289	67,807	3,026	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	293	68,480	3,014	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	296	69,325	2,998	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	304	70,158	2,979	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	311	71,040	2,957	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	319	71,942	2,934	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	319	72,888	2,915	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	318	73,826	2,900	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	319	74,625	2,892	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	321	75,446	2,888	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	324	76,418	2,882	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	327	77,521	2,876	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	331	78,652	2,868	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	335	79,700	2,863	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	343	80,725	2,861	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	353	81,721	2,854	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	361	82,685	2,842	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	366	83,614	2,825	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	372	84,505	2,799	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	380	85,108	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.

Iran

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 Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.