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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosAfghanistanPoland
27322,20638,358
27422,46138,344
27522,50738,339
27623,60038,320
27825,00538,283
27925,69838,268
28026,33538,249
28127,15438,220
28227,38738,204
28327,70638,204
28528,48438,572
28629,12138,606
28729,75838,615
28830,42038,623
28931,10838,591
29031,82338,573
29132,56438,544
29133,33238,516
29234,12538,511
29334,94138,502
29435,97238,475
29437,03438,443
29538,12738,250
29539,25237,914

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

Poland

  • 1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
  • 1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
  • 1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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