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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	Poland	Ghana
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	38,358	19,327
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	38,344	19,792
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	38,339	20,280
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	38,320	20,806
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	38,283	21,350
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	38,268	21,900
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	38,249	22,469
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	38,220	23,058
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	38,204	23,661
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	38,204	24,270
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	38,572	24,899
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	38,606	25,559
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	38,615	26,244
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	38,623	26,945
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	38,591	27,664
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	38,573	28,405
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	38,544	29,146
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	38,516	29,879
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	38,511	30,617
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	38,502	31,362
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	38,475	32,111
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	38,443	32,864
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	38,250	33,622
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	37,914	34,280

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.

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,

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.