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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	Lesotho
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	11,075	1,908
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	11,405	1,916
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	11,828	1,922
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	12,380	1,926
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	12,829	1,926
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	13,178	1,925
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	13,540	1,922
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	13,917	1,919
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	14,309	1,917
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	14,722	1,915
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	15,152	1,916
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	15,600	1,920
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	16,064	1,925
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	16,563	1,930
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	17,072	1,936
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	17,575	1,942
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	18,094	1,948
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	18,621	1,953
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	19,157	1,958
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	19,698	1,962
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	20,242	1,987
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	20,788	2,013
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	21,336	2,037
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	21,889	2,059

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