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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 BarbadosLuxembourgPolandEstonia
27343338,3581,378
27443838,3441,400
27544338,3391,391
27644838,3201,382
27845438,2831,374
27946038,2681,365
28046738,2491,357
28147438,2201,349
28248238,2041,341
28349138,2041,337
28550038,5721,334
28650938,6061,332
28752138,6151,328
28853338,6231,324
28954738,5911,319
29056038,5731,314
29157138,5441,312
29158638,5161,314
29259938,5111,314
29361038,5021,318
29462338,4751,323
29463338,4431,327
29564338,2501,329
29565137,9141,330

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.