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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Poland	Albania	São Tomé & Príncipe
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	3,085	138
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	3,065	141
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	3,047	144
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	3,038	147
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	3,026	151
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	3,014	154
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	2,998	158
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	2,979	161
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	2,957	165
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	2,934	168
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	2,915	172
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	2,900	176
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	2,892	180
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	2,888	183
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	2,882	187
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	2,876	190
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	2,868	194
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	2,863	198
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	2,861	201
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	2,854	204
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	2,842	208
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	2,825	212
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	2,799	216
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	2,787	220

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, Albania, São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.