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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	Iceland	Colombia	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	38,365	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	38,911	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	39,411	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	39,918	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	40,416	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	40,899	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	41,374	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	41,862	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	42,324	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	42,781	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	43,264	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	43,771	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	44,225	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	44,660	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	45,081	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	45,846	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	46,290	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	46,796	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	47,385	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	48,222	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	49,326	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	50,283	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	50,978	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	51,332	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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Colombia

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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; the database as a whole is cited above.