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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 BarbadosPolandCambodia
27338,35812,122
27438,34412,317
27538,33912,504
27638,32012,691
27838,28312,881
27938,26813,076
28038,24913,276
28138,22013,461
28238,20413,630
28338,20413,808
28538,57213,990
28638,60614,162
28738,61514,322
28838,62314,480
28938,59114,637
29038,57314,793
29138,54414,994
29138,51615,238
29238,51115,480
29338,50215,717
29438,47515,944
29438,44316,149
29538,25016,338
29537,91416,514

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