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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 BarbadosDominicaPolandOman
2737038,3582,348
2747138,3442,403
2757138,3392,457
2767238,3202,510
2787238,2832,562
2797238,2682,613
2807238,2492,663
2817238,2202,713
2827238,2042,764
2837338,2042,816
2857338,5722,871
2867338,6062,928
2877338,6152,986
2887338,6233,047
2897338,5913,110
2907338,5733,174
2917438,5443,240
2917438,5163,307
2927438,5113,375
2937438,5023,444
2947538,4753,512
2947538,4433,582
2957638,2503,651
2957637,9143,696

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