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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Poland	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	83,811

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,

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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