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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Poland	Hungary
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	10,244
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	10,218
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	10,194
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	10,165
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	10,136
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	10,114
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	10,094
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	10,078
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	10,062
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	10,045
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	10,029
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	10,007
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	9,978
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	9,927
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	9,900
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	9,873
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	9,850
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	9,821
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	9,794
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	9,782
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	9,778
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	9,757
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	9,716
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	9,690

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,

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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