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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 BarbadosPolandKyrgyzstan
27338,3584,773
27438,3444,826
27538,3394,865
27638,3204,901
27838,2834,946
27938,2684,999
28038,2495,048
28138,2205,096
28238,2045,137
28338,2045,180
28538,5725,238
28638,6065,289
28738,6155,328
28838,6235,373
28938,5915,423
29038,5735,478
29138,5445,537
29138,5165,598
29238,5115,658
29338,5025,717
29438,4755,774
29438,4435,830
29538,2505,884
29537,9145,976

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