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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	United States	Iceland	Romania	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	277	22,414	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	281	22,262	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	285	22,106	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	288	21,931	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	289	21,828	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	293	21,704	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	296	21,571	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	304	21,443	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	311	21,129	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	319	20,779	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	319	20,607	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	318	20,485	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	319	20,385	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	321	20,296	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	324	20,224	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	327	20,151	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	331	20,055	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	335	19,938	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	343	19,823	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	353	19,713	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	361	19,622	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	366	19,496	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	372	19,351	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	380	19,266	7,666

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: 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)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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.

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