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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 BarbadosLuxembourgEstoniaPoland
2734331,37838,358
2744381,40038,344
2754431,39138,339
2764481,38238,320
2784541,37438,283
2794601,36538,268
2804671,35738,249
2814741,34938,220
2824821,34138,204
2834911,33738,204
2855001,33438,572
2865091,33238,606
2875211,32838,615
2885331,32438,623
2895471,31938,591
2905601,31438,573
2915711,31238,544
2915861,31438,516
2925991,31438,511
2936101,31838,502
2946231,32338,475
2946331,32738,443
2956431,32938,250
2956511,33037,914

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

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, Luxembourg, Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.