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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosPolandLithuania
27338,3583,419
27438,3443,395
27538,3393,367
27638,3203,340
27838,2833,313
27938,2683,276
28038,2493,223
28138,2203,172
28238,2043,134
28338,2043,102
28538,5723,068
28638,6063,004
28738,6152,937
28838,6232,898
28938,5912,869
29038,5732,844
29138,5442,818
29138,5162,782
29238,5112,744
29338,5022,718
29438,4752,710
29438,4432,711
29538,2502,724
29537,9142,748

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