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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	Guinea	Romania	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	7,610	22,414	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	7,780	22,262	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,821	22,106	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,906	21,931	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,121	21,828	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,317	21,704	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	8,478	21,571	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	8,650	21,443	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	8,860	21,129	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	9,091	20,779	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	9,327	20,607	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	9,571	20,485	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	9,825	20,385	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,084	20,296	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,351	20,224	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,632	20,151	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,924	20,055	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,225	19,938	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,534	19,823	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,855	19,713	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	12,160	19,622	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	12,469	19,496	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	12,778	19,351	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	13,087	19,266	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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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