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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	Malta	Thailand	Romania	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	387	59,748	22,414	273
Dec 31, 2000	390	60,165	22,262	274
Dec 31, 2001	393	60,746	22,106	275
Dec 31, 2002	396	61,323	21,931	276
Dec 31, 2003	398	61,884	21,828	278
Dec 31, 2004	401	62,425	21,704	279
Dec 31, 2005	404	62,956	21,571	280
Dec 31, 2006	405	63,467	21,443	281
Dec 31, 2007	406	63,937	21,129	282
Dec 31, 2008	409	64,381	20,779	283
Dec 31, 2009	412	64,804	20,607	285
Dec 31, 2010	414	65,208	20,485	286
Dec 31, 2011	416	65,599	20,385	287
Dec 31, 2012	420	65,970	20,296	288
Dec 31, 2013	426	66,332	20,224	289
Dec 31, 2014	435	66,673	20,151	290
Dec 31, 2015	445	66,975	20,055	291
Dec 31, 2016	455	67,250	19,938	291
Dec 31, 2017	468	67,506	19,823	292
Dec 31, 2018	485	67,750	19,713	293
Dec 31, 2019	504	67,975	19,622	294
Dec 31, 2020	516	68,180	19,496	294
Dec 31, 2021	518	68,366	19,351	295
Dec 31, 2022	530	68,457	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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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 Malta, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.