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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	Uganda
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	3,085	23,408
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	3,065	24,195
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	3,047	24,992
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	3,038	25,846
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	3,026	26,661
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	3,014	27,414
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	2,998	28,200
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	2,979	29,021
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	2,957	29,846
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	2,934	30,647
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	2,915	31,469
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	2,900	32,343
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	2,892	33,257
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	2,888	34,234
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	2,882	35,271
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	2,876	36,419
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	2,868	37,673
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	2,863	39,157
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	2,861	40,879
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	2,854	42,329
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	2,842	43,639
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	2,825	45,120
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	2,799	46,645
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	2,787	48,065

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,

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.