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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 BarbadosSt. LuciaOmanPoland
2731522,34838,358
2741532,40338,344
2751542,45738,339
2761552,51038,320
2781562,56238,283
2791572,61338,268
2801572,66338,249
2811582,71338,220
2821592,76438,204
2831602,81638,204
2851602,87138,572
2861612,92838,606
2871622,98638,615
2881623,04738,623
2891633,11038,591
2901633,17438,573
2911643,24038,544
2911643,30738,516
2921653,37538,511
2931663,44438,502
2941663,51238,475
2941673,58238,443
2951673,65138,250
2951673,69637,914

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, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.