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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	Congo - Kinshasa	Seychelles
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	51,181	78
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	52,782	79
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	54,453	80
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	56,170	81
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	57,860	82
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	59,599	83
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	61,474	84
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	63,479	85
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	65,590	86
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	67,800	87
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	70,114	87
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	72,550	88
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	75,138	89
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	77,792	90
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	80,534	91
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	83,368	92
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	86,229	92
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	89,193	93
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	92,209	94
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	95,232	95
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	98,320	96
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	101,499	97
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	104,767	98
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	108,171	98

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, Congo - Kinshasa, Seychelles; the database as a whole is cited above.