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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosPolandDominican Republic
27338,3588,175
27438,3448,301
27538,3398,427
27638,3208,553
27838,2838,678
27938,2688,801
28038,2498,924
28138,2209,044
28238,2049,164
28338,2049,281
28538,5729,398
28638,6069,512
28738,6159,627
28838,6239,742
28938,5919,855
29038,5739,965
29138,54410,072
29138,51610,177
29238,51110,281
29338,50210,385
29438,47510,487
29438,44310,587
29538,25010,686
29537,91410,793

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