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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Ecuador	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	12,268	273
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	12,446	274
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	12,629	275
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	12,827	276
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	13,074	278
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	13,368	279
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	13,661	280
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	13,915	281
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	14,133	282
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	14,352	283
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	14,569	285
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	14,786	286
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	15,002	287
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	15,218	288
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	15,433	289
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	15,647	290
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	15,860	291
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	16,072	291
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	16,282	292
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	16,489	293
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	16,693	294
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	16,894	294
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	17,093	295
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	17,288	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.

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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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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