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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	Malta	Laos	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	387	5,286	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	390	5,397	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	393	5,499	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	396	5,578	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	398	5,654	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	401	5,746	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	404	5,836	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	405	5,931	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	406	6,035	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	409	6,145	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	412	6,257	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	414	6,368	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	416	6,477	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	420	6,586	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	426	6,695	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	435	6,804	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	445	6,912	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	455	7,019	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	468	7,127	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	485	7,234	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	504	7,343	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	516	7,452	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	518	7,560	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	530	7,666	37,914

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