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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosPolandCentral African Republic
27338,3583,889
27438,3443,980
27538,3394,054
27638,3204,128
27838,2834,215
27938,2684,289
28038,2494,363
28138,2204,449
28238,2044,544
28338,2044,641
28538,5724,742
28638,6064,845
28738,6154,950
28838,6235,057
28938,5915,167
29038,5735,278
29138,5445,392
29138,5165,507
29238,5115,625
29338,5025,745
29438,4755,874
29438,4436,025
29538,2506,154
29537,9146,291

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, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.