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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	Poland	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	273	387	38,358	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	274	390	38,344	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	275	393	38,339	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	276	396	38,320	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	278	398	38,283	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	279	401	38,268	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	280	404	38,249	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	281	405	38,220	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	282	406	38,204	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	283	409	38,204	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	285	412	38,572	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	286	414	38,606	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	287	416	38,615	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	288	420	38,623	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	289	426	38,591	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	290	435	38,573	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	291	445	38,544	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	291	455	38,516	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	292	468	38,511	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	293	485	38,502	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	294	504	38,475	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	294	516	38,443	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	295	518	38,250	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	295	530	37,914	3,228

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, Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.