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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Austria	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,039	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,059	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	8,090	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	8,130	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,166	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,217	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	8,274	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	8,317	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	8,344	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	8,370	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	8,390	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	8,410	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	8,438	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,476	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,527	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,594	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,680	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,791	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,847	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,890	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,930	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,969	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	9,004	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	9,107	37,914

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

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

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; the database as a whole is cited above.