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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 BarbadosLuxembourgSudanPoland
27343326,16838,358
27443826,77138,344
27544327,38738,339
27644828,01738,320
27845428,66238,283
27946029,32138,268
28046729,99638,249
28147430,68638,220
28248231,39338,204
28349132,13738,204
28550033,07838,572
28650933,89138,606
28752134,56838,615
28853335,29338,623
28954736,09338,591
29056037,05838,573
29157138,16538,544
29158639,29438,516
29259940,51238,511
29361041,76438,502
29462342,95238,475
29463344,12138,443
29564345,29038,250
29565146,49837,914

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