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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	Jordan	Romania	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	277	4,591	22,414	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	281	4,700	22,262	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	285	4,811	22,106	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	288	4,923	21,931	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	289	5,037	21,828	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	293	5,161	21,704	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	296	5,295	21,571	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	304	5,765	21,443	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	311	6,243	21,129	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	319	6,397	20,779	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	319	6,538	20,607	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	318	6,680	20,485	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	319	6,840	20,385	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	321	6,952	20,296	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	324	7,706	20,224	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	327	8,839	20,151	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	331	9,506	20,055	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	335	9,863	19,938	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	343	10,066	19,823	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	353	10,273	19,713	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	361	10,480	19,622	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	366	10,628	19,496	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	372	10,716	19,351	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	380	10,849	19,266	7,666

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.

Jordan

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
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 Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.