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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Mexico	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	97,242	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	98,403	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	99,599	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	100,863	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	102,132	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	103,334	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	104,508	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	105,738	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	107,083	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	108,554	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	110,061	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	111,468	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	112,826	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	114,163	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	115,471	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	116,757	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	118,017	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	117,444	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	118,799	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	120,289	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	121,872	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	123,260	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	124,462	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	125,247	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.

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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

Mexico

1550–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Prados de la Escosura, L., (2009), ‘Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America’, Journal of Latin America Studies, 41, pp. 279–307. (updated data)
1870-1895: Bértola, L., & Ocampo, J. A. (2012). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford University Press, Table A.2
1895–2003: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350

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; the database as a whole is cited above.