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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosCôte d’IvoirePoland
27317,10638,358
27417,55238,344
27518,01038,339
27618,43838,320
27818,89538,283
27919,43238,268
28019,96838,249
28120,51238,220
28221,09738,204
28321,69938,204
28522,28538,572
28622,84538,606
28723,34338,615
28823,87938,623
28924,49238,591
29025,10438,573
29125,71938,544
29126,34838,516
29226,98438,511
29327,61438,502
29428,25238,475
29428,89538,443
29529,54638,250
29530,27937,914

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

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, Côte d’Ivoire; the database as a whole is cited above.