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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Poland	India
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	1,000,965
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	1,018,667
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	1,036,256
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	1,053,663
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	1,070,882
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	1,087,941
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	1,104,803
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	1,121,354
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	1,137,576
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	1,153,547
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	1,169,239
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	1,184,638
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	1,199,810
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	1,214,839
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	1,229,765
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	1,244,577
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	1,259,236
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	1,273,693
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	1,287,902
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	1,301,821
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	1,315,530
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	1,329,062
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	1,339,912
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	1,349,060

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,

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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