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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 BarbadosMaliPoland
27310,59638,358
27410,83338,344
27510,89038,339
27611,00738,320
27811,30738,283
27911,57938,268
28011,80438,249
28112,04338,220
28212,33738,204
28312,65738,204
28512,98638,572
28613,32538,606
28713,67938,615
28814,04038,623
28914,41238,591
29014,80338,573
29115,21038,544
29115,62938,516
29216,06038,511
29316,50738,502
29416,96738,475
29417,44238,443
29517,93038,250
29518,49437,914

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