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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	St. Lucia	Congo - Kinshasa	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	152	51,181	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	153	52,782	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	154	54,453	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	155	56,170	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	156	57,860	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	157	59,599	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	157	61,474	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	158	63,479	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	159	65,590	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	160	67,800	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	160	70,114	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	161	72,550	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	162	75,138	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	162	77,792	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	163	80,534	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	163	83,368	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	164	86,229	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	164	89,193	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	165	92,209	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	166	95,232	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	166	98,320	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	167	101,499	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	167	104,767	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	167	108,171	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.

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, St. Lucia, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.