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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 BarbadosMoroccoBurkina FasoPoland
27328,40011,07538,358
27428,74411,40538,344
27529,09411,82838,339
27629,44712,38038,320
27829,80612,82938,283
27930,16913,17838,268
28030,55213,54038,249
28130,95313,91738,220
28231,35414,30938,204
28331,75414,72238,204
28532,15415,15238,572
28632,55315,60038,606
28732,95116,06438,615
28833,34616,56338,623
28933,73717,07238,591
29034,12417,57538,573
29134,51118,09438,544
29134,89818,62138,516
29235,27919,15738,511
29335,65319,69838,502
29436,01820,24238,475
29436,37520,78838,443
29536,72321,33638,250
29537,10121,88937,914

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.

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, Morocco, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.