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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	Sri Lanka
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	38,358	19,354
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	38,344	19,610
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	38,339	19,838
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	38,320	20,060
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	38,283	20,297
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	38,268	20,529
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	38,249	20,703
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	38,220	20,917
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	38,204	21,120
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	38,204	21,315
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	38,572	21,503
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	38,606	21,713
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	38,615	21,918
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	38,623	22,120
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	38,591	22,320
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	38,573	22,517
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	38,544	22,711
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	38,516	22,899
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	38,511	23,080
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	38,502	23,254
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	38,475	23,420
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	38,443	23,579
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	38,250	23,732
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	37,914	23,796

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,

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