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Population, long-run history by country
Population, long-run history
Annual, Persons, thousands
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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
| Date | Barbados | Bosnia & Herzegovina | Poland |
|---|---|---|---|
| 273 | 3,811 | 38,358 | |
| 274 | 3,901 | 38,344 | |
| 275 | 3,919 | 38,339 | |
| 276 | 3,923 | 38,320 | |
| 278 | 3,940 | 38,283 | |
| 279 | 3,975 | 38,268 | |
| 280 | 3,991 | 38,249 | |
| 281 | 3,993 | 38,220 | |
| 282 | 3,990 | 38,204 | |
| 283 | 3,987 | 38,204 | |
| 285 | 3,985 | 38,572 | |
| 286 | 3,983 | 38,606 | |
| 287 | 3,980 | 38,615 | |
| 288 | 3,977 | 38,623 | |
| 289 | 3,973 | 38,591 | |
| 290 | 3,968 | 38,573 | |
| 291 | 3,963 | 38,544 | |
| 291 | 3,957 | 38,516 | |
| 292 | 3,951 | 38,511 | |
| 293 | 3,944 | 38,502 | |
| 294 | 3,937 | 38,475 | |
| 294 | 3,929 | 38,443 | |
| 295 | 3,921 | 38,250 | |
| 295 | 3,876 | 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.
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
Bosnia & Herzegovina
- 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project
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.