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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosDominicaPolandEstonia
2737038,3581,378
2747138,3441,400
2757138,3391,391
2767238,3201,382
2787238,2831,374
2797238,2681,365
2807238,2491,357
2817238,2201,349
2827238,2041,341
2837338,2041,337
2857338,5721,334
2867338,6061,332
2877338,6151,328
2887338,6231,324
2897338,5911,319
2907338,5731,314
2917438,5441,312
2917438,5161,314
2927438,5111,314
2937438,5021,318
2947538,4751,323
2947538,4431,327
2957638,2501,329
2957637,9141,330

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