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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	Barbados	Benin	Burkina Faso	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	6,461	11,075	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	6,677	11,405	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	6,902	11,828	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,130	12,380	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,360	12,829	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,589	13,178	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,838	13,540	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	8,089	13,917	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	8,335	14,309	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	8,603	14,722	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	8,884	15,152	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	9,179	15,600	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	9,486	16,064	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	9,805	16,563	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,135	17,072	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,480	17,575	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,842	18,094	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,220	18,621	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,613	19,157	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	12,018	19,698	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	12,370	20,242	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	12,725	20,788	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	13,081	21,336	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	13,439	21,889	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.

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

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, Benin, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.