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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Poland	Ireland
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	3,757
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	3,807
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	3,866
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	3,934
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	4,000
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	4,070
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	4,163
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	4,273
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	4,403
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	4,499
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	4,542
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	4,563
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	4,581
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	4,600
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	4,623
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	4,655
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	4,699
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	4,752
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	4,805
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	4,864
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	4,930
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	4,983
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	5,022
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	5,118

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,

Ireland

1820, 1870, 1913: MPD 2013, Bolt and Van Zanden, 2014, The Maddison Project: collaborative research on historical national accounts. The Economic History Review, 67(3), 627–651
1913-1926: P. Deane (1968), and Feinstein, 1972
1926-1950: K.A. Kennedy, Productivity and Industrial Growth: The Irish Experience, Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 3.

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