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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	Romania	Russia	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	277	22,414	147,218	273
Dec 31, 2000	281	22,262	146,600	274
Dec 31, 2001	285	22,106	145,980	275
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,931	145,310	276
Dec 31, 2003	289	21,828	144,652	278
Dec 31, 2004	293	21,704	144,071	279
Dec 31, 2005	296	21,571	143,522	280
Dec 31, 2006	304	21,443	143,053	281
Dec 31, 2007	311	21,129	142,809	282
Dec 31, 2008	319	20,779	142,746	283
Dec 31, 2009	319	20,607	142,789	285
Dec 31, 2010	318	20,485	142,853	286
Dec 31, 2011	319	20,385	142,964	287
Dec 31, 2012	321	20,296	143,205	288
Dec 31, 2013	324	20,224	143,510	289
Dec 31, 2014	327	20,151	146,094	290
Dec 31, 2015	331	20,055	146,410	291
Dec 31, 2016	335	19,938	146,678	291
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,823	146,846	292
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,713	146,834	293
Dec 31, 2019	361	19,622	146,768	294
Dec 31, 2020	366	19,496	146,463	294
Dec 31, 2021	372	19,351	145,849	295
Dec 31, 2022	380	19,266	146,693	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.

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.

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.