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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 FasoMorocco
27338,35811,07528,400
27438,34411,40528,744
27538,33911,82829,094
27638,32012,38029,447
27838,28312,82929,806
27938,26813,17830,169
28038,24913,54030,552
28138,22013,91730,953
28238,20414,30931,354
28338,20414,72231,754
28538,57215,15232,154
28638,60615,60032,553
28738,61516,06432,951
28838,62316,56333,346
28938,59117,07233,737
29038,57317,57534,124
29138,54418,09434,511
29138,51618,62134,898
29238,51119,15735,279
29338,50219,69835,653
29438,47520,24236,018
29438,44320,78836,375
29538,25021,33636,723
29537,91421,88937,101

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