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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 BarbadosPolandMauritius
27338,3581,173
27438,3441,186
27538,3391,199
27638,3201,211
27838,2831,222
27938,2681,233
28038,2491,243
28138,2201,253
28238,2041,261
28338,2041,269
28538,5721,276
28638,6061,282
28738,6151,286
28838,6231,288
28938,5911,291
29038,5731,294
29138,5441,296
29138,5161,298
29238,5111,300
29338,5021,302
29438,4751,304
29438,4431,305
29538,2501,307
29537,9141,307

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