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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	Central African Republic	Poland	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,889	38,358	387
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,980	38,344	390
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,054	38,339	393
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,128	38,320	396
Dec 31, 2003	278	4,215	38,283	398
Dec 31, 2004	279	4,289	38,268	401
Dec 31, 2005	280	4,363	38,249	404
Dec 31, 2006	281	4,449	38,220	405
Dec 31, 2007	282	4,544	38,204	406
Dec 31, 2008	283	4,641	38,204	409
Dec 31, 2009	285	4,742	38,572	412
Dec 31, 2010	286	4,845	38,606	414
Dec 31, 2011	287	4,950	38,615	416
Dec 31, 2012	288	5,057	38,623	420
Dec 31, 2013	289	5,167	38,591	426
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,278	38,573	435
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,392	38,544	445
Dec 31, 2016	291	5,507	38,516	455
Dec 31, 2017	292	5,625	38,511	468
Dec 31, 2018	293	5,745	38,502	485
Dec 31, 2019	294	5,874	38,475	504
Dec 31, 2020	294	6,025	38,443	516
Dec 31, 2021	295	6,154	38,250	518
Dec 31, 2022	295	6,291	37,914	530

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, Central African Republic, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.