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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosMadagascarPoland
27315,25938,358
27415,70738,344
27516,16238,339
27616,63138,320
27817,11438,283
27917,61038,268
28018,12038,249
28118,64138,220
28219,17338,204
28319,71738,204
28520,27238,572
28620,83738,606
28721,41338,615
28821,99938,623
28922,59338,591
29023,19638,573
29123,80638,544
29124,42338,516
29225,04438,511
29325,67138,502
29426,30238,475
29426,93638,443
29527,57338,250
29528,23737,914

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