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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosPolandAfghanistan
27338,35822,206
27438,34422,461
27538,33922,507
27638,32023,600
27838,28325,005
27938,26825,698
28038,24926,335
28138,22027,154
28238,20427,387
28338,20427,706
28538,57228,484
28638,60629,121
28738,61529,758
28838,62330,420
28938,59131,108
29038,57331,823
29138,54432,564
29138,51633,332
29238,51134,125
29338,50234,941
29438,47535,972
29438,44337,034
29538,25038,127
29537,91439,252

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, Afghanistan; the database as a whole is cited above.