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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Indonesia	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	208,105	273
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	211,408	274
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	214,475	275
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	217,516	276
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	220,549	278
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	224,473	279
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	227,534	280
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	230,739	281
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	233,918	282
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	237,056	283
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	240,140	285
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	243,171	286
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	246,150	287
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	249,086	288
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	251,947	289
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	254,702	290
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	257,351	291
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	259,906	291
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	262,379	292
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	264,789	293
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	267,142	294
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	269,437	294
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	271,674	295
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	273,409	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.

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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