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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Argentina	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	36,924	273
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	37,336	274
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	37,714	275
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	38,079	276
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	38,438	278
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	38,800	279
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	39,171	280
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	39,556	281
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	39,947	282
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	40,343	283
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	40,736	285
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	41,401	286
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	41,881	287
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	42,360	288
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	42,836	289
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	43,310	290
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	43,779	291
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	44,245	291
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	44,706	292
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	45,162	293
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	45,613	294
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	46,058	294
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	46,496	295
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	46,736	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

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.

Argentina

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

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