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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosOmanPolandLuxembourg
2732,34838,358433
2742,40338,344438
2752,45738,339443
2762,51038,320448
2782,56238,283454
2792,61338,268460
2802,66338,249467
2812,71338,220474
2822,76438,204482
2832,81638,204491
2852,87138,572500
2862,92838,606509
2872,98638,615521
2883,04738,623533
2893,11038,591547
2903,17438,573560
2913,24038,544571
2913,30738,516586
2923,37538,511599
2933,44438,502610
2943,51238,475623
2943,58238,443633
2953,65138,250643
2953,69637,914651

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, Oman, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.