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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	Malta	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	70	387	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	71	390	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	71	393	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	72	396	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	72	398	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	72	401	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	72	404	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	72	405	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	72	406	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	73	409	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	73	412	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	73	414	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	73	416	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	73	420	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	73	426	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	73	435	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	74	445	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	74	455	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	74	468	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	74	485	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	75	504	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	75	516	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	76	518	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	76	530	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

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