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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Jordan	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	4,591	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,700	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,811	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,923	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	5,037	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	5,161	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	5,295	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	5,765	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	6,243	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	6,397	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	6,538	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	6,680	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	6,840	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	6,952	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	7,706	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,839	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	9,506	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	9,863	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,066	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,273	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,480	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,628	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,716	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,849	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.

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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

Jordan

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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.