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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 BarbadosPolandGuinea
27338,3587,610
27438,3447,780
27538,3397,821
27638,3207,906
27838,2838,121
27938,2688,317
28038,2498,478
28138,2208,650
28238,2048,860
28338,2049,091
28538,5729,327
28638,6069,571
28738,6159,825
28838,62310,084
28938,59110,351
29038,57310,632
29138,54410,924
29138,51611,225
29238,51111,534
29338,50211,855
29438,47512,160
29438,44312,469
29538,25012,778
29537,91413,087

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, Guinea; the database as a whole is cited above.