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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	Sri Lanka
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	11,075	19,354
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	11,405	19,610
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	11,828	19,838
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	12,380	20,060
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	12,829	20,297
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	13,178	20,529
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	13,540	20,703
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	13,917	20,917
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	14,309	21,120
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	14,722	21,315
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	15,152	21,503
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	15,600	21,713
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	16,064	21,918
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	16,563	22,120
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	17,072	22,320
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	17,575	22,517
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	18,094	22,711
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	18,621	22,899
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	19,157	23,080
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	19,698	23,254
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	20,242	23,420
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	20,788	23,579
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	21,336	23,732
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	21,889	23,796

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, Sri Lanka; the database as a whole is cited above.