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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	Yemen	Romania	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	277	16,728	22,414	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	281	17,236	22,262	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	285	17,762	22,106	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	288	18,310	21,931	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	289	18,855	21,828	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	293	19,410	21,704	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	296	20,000	21,571	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	304	20,611	21,443	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	311	21,236	21,129	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	319	21,878	20,779	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	319	22,533	20,607	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	318	23,195	20,485	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	319	23,880	20,385	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	321	24,594	20,296	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	324	25,311	20,224	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	327	26,020	20,151	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	331	26,698	20,055	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	335	27,347	19,938	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	343	27,985	19,823	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	353	28,608	19,713	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	361	29,216	19,622	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	366	29,811	19,496	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	372	30,399	19,351	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	380	31,058	19,266	4,713

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.

Lebanon

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

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