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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	Uzbekistan	Romania	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	277	24,701	22,414	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	281	25,042	22,262	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	285	25,372	22,106	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	288	25,696	21,931	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	289	25,992	21,828	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	293	26,268	21,704	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	296	26,540	21,571	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	304	26,812	21,443	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	311	27,081	21,129	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	319	27,347	20,779	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	319	27,609	20,607	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	318	27,869	20,485	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	319	28,132	20,385	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	321	28,398	20,296	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	324	28,666	20,224	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	327	28,934	20,151	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	331	29,205	20,055	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	335	29,480	19,938	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	343	29,756	19,823	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	353	30,031	19,713	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	361	30,305	19,622	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	366	30,576	19,496	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	372	30,843	19,351	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	380	31,337	19,266	2,787

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.

No separate list is published for Uzbekistan, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.