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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosPolandUnited Arab Emirates
27338,3583,101
27438,3443,284
27538,3393,458
27638,3203,613
27838,2833,754
27938,2683,882
28038,2494,000
28138,2204,532
28238,2045,623
28338,2047,277
28538,5728,164
28638,6068,152
28738,6158,438
28838,6238,747
28938,5919,077
29038,5739,321
29138,5449,461
29138,5169,587
29238,5119,699
29338,5029,796
29438,4759,879
29438,4439,953
29538,25010,018
29537,91410,099

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

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, United Arab Emirates; the database as a whole is cited above.