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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Cuba	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	11,108	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	11,147	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	11,179	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	11,210	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	11,241	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	11,260	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	11,268	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	11,266	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	11,261	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	11,258	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	11,260	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	11,262	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	11,264	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	11,262	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	11,250	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	11,238	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	11,214	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,180	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,147	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,116	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,105	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,089	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,046	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	11,003	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

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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.