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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Switzerland	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	7,258	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	7,296	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,332	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,384	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,438	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,488	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,532	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	7,579	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	7,647	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	7,738	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	7,825	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	7,884	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	7,959	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,044	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,137	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,237	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,332	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,423	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,502	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,565	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,626	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,689	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	8,756	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	8,834	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

Switzerland

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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.