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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	Belgium	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	10,227	627
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	10,252	659
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	10,288	691
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	10,334	724
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	10,377	757
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	10,422	850
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	10,480	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	10,549	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	10,627	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	10,711	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	10,797	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	10,897	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	11,039	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	11,108	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	11,160	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	11,210	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	11,275	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	11,332	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	11,376	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	11,429	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	11,491	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	11,546	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	11,594	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	11,695	2,559

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,

Belgium

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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