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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 BarbadosPolandNiger
27338,35810,424
27438,34410,785
27538,33911,170
27638,32011,580
27838,28312,015
27938,26812,472
28038,24912,954
28138,22013,459
28238,20413,986
28338,20414,532
28538,57215,092
28638,60615,669
28738,61516,263
28838,62316,903
28938,59117,569
29038,57318,242
29138,54418,957
29138,51619,708
29238,51120,462
29338,50221,228
29438,47522,023
29438,44322,842
29538,25023,691
29537,91424,587

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