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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosHong Kong SAR ChinaPoland
2736,58738,358
2746,64638,344
2756,69538,339
2766,72538,320
2786,71238,283
2796,76538,268
2806,79438,249
2816,83838,220
2826,89738,204
2836,93838,204
2856,95338,572
2867,00438,606
2877,05238,615
2887,13038,623
2897,15938,591
2907,20938,573
2917,27138,544
2917,31638,516
2927,37238,511
2937,43238,502
2947,48738,475
2947,46038,443
2957,39238,250
2957,38737,914

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.

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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, Hong Kong SAR China; the database as a whole is cited above.