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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Philippines	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	79,346	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	81,131	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	83,023	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	84,876	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	86,697	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	88,568	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	90,418	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	92,253	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	94,098	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	95,923	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	97,627	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	99,317	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	100,999	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	102,618	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	104,299	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	106,076	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	107,868	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	109,493	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	111,094	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	112,843	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	114,636	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	117,026	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	119,473	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	121,234	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

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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.