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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 BarbadosPolandMali
27338,35810,596
27438,34410,833
27538,33910,890
27638,32011,007
27838,28311,307
27938,26811,579
28038,24911,804
28138,22012,043
28238,20412,337
28338,20412,657
28538,57212,986
28638,60613,325
28738,61513,679
28838,62314,040
28938,59114,412
29038,57314,803
29138,54415,210
29138,51615,629
29238,51116,060
29338,50216,507
29438,47516,967
29438,44317,442
29538,25017,930
29537,91418,494

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