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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	France	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	60,396	273
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	60,811	274
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	61,255	275
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	61,703	276
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	62,141	278
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	62,600	279
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	63,073	280
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	63,513	281
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	63,906	282
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	64,264	283
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	64,594	285
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	64,913	286
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	65,231	287
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	65,552	288
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	65,891	289
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	66,212	290
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	66,480	291
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	66,730	291
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	67,015	292
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	67,347	293
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	67,660	294
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	67,901	294
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	68,114	295
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	68,387	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.

France

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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