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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 BarbadosPolandAlbaniaSeychelles
27338,3583,08578
27438,3443,06579
27538,3393,04780
27638,3203,03881
27838,2833,02682
27938,2683,01483
28038,2492,99884
28138,2202,97985
28238,2042,95786
28338,2042,93487
28538,5722,91587
28638,6062,90088
28738,6152,89289
28838,6232,88890
28938,5912,88291
29038,5732,87692
29138,5442,86892
29138,5162,86393
29238,5112,86194
29338,5022,85495
29438,4752,84296
29438,4432,82597
29538,2502,79998
29537,9142,78798

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, Albania, Seychelles; the database as a whole is cited above.