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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	Dominica	Bangladesh	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	70	132,907	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	71	135,207	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	71	137,420	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	72	139,573	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	72	141,650	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	72	143,644	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	72	145,546	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	72	147,376	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	72	149,047	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	73	150,562	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	73	152,189	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	73	153,927	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	73	155,634	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	73	157,326	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	73	158,999	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	73	160,650	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	74	162,273	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	74	163,938	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	74	165,655	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	74	167,358	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	75	169,045	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	75	170,709	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	76	172,354	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	76	174,217	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.

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

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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