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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Czechia	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,230	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,220	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,172	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,148	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,149	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,154	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,182	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,214	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,270	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,376	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,438	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,463	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	10,443	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,455	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,457	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,471	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,489	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	10,511	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,535	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,572	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,615	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,645	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,642	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,635	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

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, Czechia; the database as a whole is cited above.