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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	France	Burkina Faso	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	60,396	11,075	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,811	11,405	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	61,255	11,828	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,703	12,380	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	62,141	12,829	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,600	13,178	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	63,073	13,540	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,513	13,917	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,906	14,309	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,264	14,722	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,594	15,152	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	64,913	15,600	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,231	16,064	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,552	16,563	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	65,891	17,072	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,212	17,575	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,480	18,094	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	66,730	18,621	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,015	19,157	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,347	19,698	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,660	20,242	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	67,901	20,788	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,114	21,336	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,387	21,889	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

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.