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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	Romania	Japan	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	126,512	273
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	126,755	274
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	127,056	275
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	127,324	276
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	127,558	278
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	127,658	279
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	127,679	280
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	127,762	281
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	127,904	282
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	127,969	283
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	127,958	285
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	127,967	286
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	127,755	287
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	127,476	288
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	127,257	289
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	127,186	290
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	127,034	291
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	126,857	291
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	126,631	292
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	126,368	293
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	126,092	294
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	125,634	294
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	125,427	295
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	124,762	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.

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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