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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 BarbadosPolandBurkina FasoHonduras
27338,35811,0756,198
27438,34411,4056,367
27538,33911,8286,535
27638,32012,3806,698
27838,28312,8296,863
27938,26813,1787,028
28038,24913,5407,194
28138,22013,9177,359
28238,20414,3097,522
28338,20414,7227,682
28538,57215,1527,839
28638,60615,6007,991
28738,61516,0648,141
28838,62316,5638,288
28938,59117,0728,429
29038,57317,5758,546
29138,54418,0948,661
29138,51618,6218,770
29238,51119,1578,878
29338,50219,6989,002
29438,47520,2429,154
29438,44320,7889,304
29538,25021,3369,448
29537,91421,8899,590

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, Honduras; the database as a whole is cited above.