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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	Luxembourg	Poland	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	273	433	38,358	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	274	438	38,344	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	275	443	38,339	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	276	448	38,320	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	278	454	38,283	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	279	460	38,268	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	280	467	38,249	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	281	474	38,220	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	282	482	38,204	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	283	491	38,204	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	285	500	38,572	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	286	509	38,606	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	287	521	38,615	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	288	533	38,623	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	289	547	38,591	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	290	560	38,573	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	291	571	38,544	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	291	586	38,516	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	292	599	38,511	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	293	610	38,502	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	294	623	38,475	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	294	633	38,443	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	295	643	38,250	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	295	651	37,914	7,666

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