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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 BarbadosPolandHong Kong SAR China
27338,3586,587
27438,3446,646
27538,3396,695
27638,3206,725
27838,2836,712
27938,2686,765
28038,2496,794
28138,2206,838
28238,2046,897
28338,2046,938
28538,5726,953
28638,6067,004
28738,6157,052
28838,6237,130
28938,5917,159
29038,5737,209
29138,5447,271
29138,5167,316
29238,5117,372
29338,5027,432
29438,4757,487
29438,4437,460
29538,2507,392
29537,9147,387

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, Hong Kong SAR China; the database as a whole is cited above.