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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	Burkina Faso	Benin
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	11,075	6,461
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	11,405	6,677
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	11,828	6,902
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	12,380	7,130
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	12,829	7,360
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	13,178	7,589
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	13,540	7,838
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	13,917	8,089
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	14,309	8,335
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	14,722	8,603
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	15,152	8,884
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	15,600	9,179
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	16,064	9,486
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	16,563	9,805
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	17,072	10,135
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	17,575	10,480
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	18,094	10,842
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	18,621	11,220
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	19,157	11,613
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	19,698	12,018
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	20,242	12,370
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	20,788	12,725
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	21,336	13,081
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	21,889	13,439

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, Burkina Faso, Benin; the database as a whole is cited above.