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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Poland	Botswana
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	1,630
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	1,665
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	1,698
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	1,730
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	1,761
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	1,792
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	1,824
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	1,857
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	1,890
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	1,923
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	1,956
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	1,990
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	2,023
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	2,057
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	2,091
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	2,125
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	2,159
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	2,194
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	2,228
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	2,262
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	2,297
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	2,331
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	2,365
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	2,403

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.

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