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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	Japan	Romania	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	277	126,512	22,414	273
Dec 31, 2000	281	126,755	22,262	274
Dec 31, 2001	285	127,056	22,106	275
Dec 31, 2002	288	127,324	21,931	276
Dec 31, 2003	289	127,558	21,828	278
Dec 31, 2004	293	127,658	21,704	279
Dec 31, 2005	296	127,679	21,571	280
Dec 31, 2006	304	127,762	21,443	281
Dec 31, 2007	311	127,904	21,129	282
Dec 31, 2008	319	127,969	20,779	283
Dec 31, 2009	319	127,958	20,607	285
Dec 31, 2010	318	127,967	20,485	286
Dec 31, 2011	319	127,755	20,385	287
Dec 31, 2012	321	127,476	20,296	288
Dec 31, 2013	324	127,257	20,224	289
Dec 31, 2014	327	127,186	20,151	290
Dec 31, 2015	331	127,034	20,055	291
Dec 31, 2016	335	126,857	19,938	291
Dec 31, 2017	343	126,631	19,823	292
Dec 31, 2018	353	126,368	19,713	293
Dec 31, 2019	361	126,092	19,622	294
Dec 31, 2020	366	125,634	19,496	294
Dec 31, 2021	372	125,427	19,351	295
Dec 31, 2022	380	124,762	19,266	295

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.

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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 Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.