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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosCambodiaAlbaniaPoland
27312,1223,08538,358
27412,3173,06538,344
27512,5043,04738,339
27612,6913,03838,320
27812,8813,02638,283
27913,0763,01438,268
28013,2762,99838,249
28113,4612,97938,220
28213,6302,95738,204
28313,8082,93438,204
28513,9902,91538,572
28614,1622,90038,606
28714,3222,89238,615
28814,4802,88838,623
28914,6372,88238,591
29014,7932,87638,573
29114,9942,86838,544
29115,2382,86338,516
29215,4802,86138,511
29315,7172,85438,502
29415,9442,84238,475
29416,1492,82538,443
29516,3382,79938,250
29516,5142,78737,914

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

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, Cambodia, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.