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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	Laos	Poland	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	273	5,286	38,358	152
Dec 31, 2000	274	5,397	38,344	153
Dec 31, 2001	275	5,499	38,339	154
Dec 31, 2002	276	5,578	38,320	155
Dec 31, 2003	278	5,654	38,283	156
Dec 31, 2004	279	5,746	38,268	157
Dec 31, 2005	280	5,836	38,249	157
Dec 31, 2006	281	5,931	38,220	158
Dec 31, 2007	282	6,035	38,204	159
Dec 31, 2008	283	6,145	38,204	160
Dec 31, 2009	285	6,257	38,572	160
Dec 31, 2010	286	6,368	38,606	161
Dec 31, 2011	287	6,477	38,615	162
Dec 31, 2012	288	6,586	38,623	162
Dec 31, 2013	289	6,695	38,591	163
Dec 31, 2014	290	6,804	38,573	163
Dec 31, 2015	291	6,912	38,544	164
Dec 31, 2016	291	7,019	38,516	164
Dec 31, 2017	292	7,127	38,511	165
Dec 31, 2018	293	7,234	38,502	166
Dec 31, 2019	294	7,343	38,475	166
Dec 31, 2020	294	7,452	38,443	167
Dec 31, 2021	295	7,560	38,250	167
Dec 31, 2022	295	7,666	37,914	167

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, Laos, St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.