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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	Norway	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	4,463	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	4,492	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	4,515	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	4,539	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	4,566	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	4,593	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	4,624	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	4,662	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	4,710	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	4,769	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	4,830	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	4,890	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	4,954	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	5,020	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	5,081	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	5,138	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	5,191	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	5,237	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	5,278	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	5,313	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	5,349	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	5,380	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	5,409	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	5,458	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.

Norway

1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

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.