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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	Spain	Albania	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	40,378	3,085	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	40,563	3,065	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	40,775	3,047	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	41,433	3,038	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	42,205	3,026	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	42,869	3,014	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	43,672	2,998	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	44,370	2,979	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	45,246	2,957	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	45,993	2,934	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	46,378	2,915	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	46,573	2,900	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	46,746	2,892	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	46,777	2,888	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	46,603	2,882	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	46,465	2,876	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,420	2,868	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,460	2,863	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	46,543	2,861	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	46,739	2,854	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	47,116	2,842	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	47,366	2,825	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	47,342	2,799	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	47,625	2,787	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

Spain

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

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