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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Poland	Laos	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	5,286	152
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	5,397	153
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	5,499	154
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	5,578	155
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	5,654	156
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	5,746	157
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	5,836	157
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	5,931	158
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	6,035	159
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	6,145	160
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	6,257	160
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	6,368	161
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	6,477	162
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	6,586	162
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	6,695	163
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	6,804	163
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	6,912	164
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	7,019	164
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	7,127	165
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	7,234	166
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	7,343	166
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	7,452	167
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	7,560	167
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	7,666	167

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.

All data sources

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, Laos, St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.