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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 BarbadosLuxembourgPolandAlbania
27343338,3583,085
27443838,3443,065
27544338,3393,047
27644838,3203,038
27845438,2833,026
27946038,2683,014
28046738,2492,998
28147438,2202,979
28248238,2042,957
28349138,2042,934
28550038,5722,915
28650938,6062,900
28752138,6152,892
28853338,6232,888
28954738,5912,882
29056038,5732,876
29157138,5442,868
29158638,5162,863
29259938,5112,861
29361038,5022,854
29462338,4752,842
29463338,4432,825
29564338,2502,799
29565137,9142,787

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