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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 FasoHaiti
27338,35811,0758,121
27438,34411,4058,279
27538,33911,8288,430
27638,32012,3808,580
27838,28312,8298,739
27938,26813,1788,900
28038,24913,5409,061
28138,22013,9179,216
28238,20414,3099,364
28338,20414,7229,508
28538,57215,1529,652
28638,60615,6009,553
28738,61516,0649,670
28838,62316,5639,793
28938,59117,0729,922
29038,57317,57510,047
29138,54418,09410,254
29138,51618,62110,486
29238,51119,15710,647
29338,50219,69810,788
29438,47520,24210,933
29438,44320,78811,077
29538,25021,33611,215
29537,91421,88911,349

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