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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Poland	Cuba
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	11,108
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	11,147
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	11,179
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	11,210
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	11,241
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	11,260
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	11,268
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	11,266
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	11,261
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	11,258
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	11,260
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	11,262
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	11,264
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	11,262
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	11,250
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	11,238
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	11,214
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	11,180
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	11,147
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	11,116
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	11,105
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	11,089
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	11,046
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	11,003

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,

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.