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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 BarbadosPolandNicaragua
27338,3584,778
27438,3444,866
27538,3394,952
27638,3205,036
27838,2835,116
27938,2685,193
28038,2495,267
28138,2205,338
28238,2045,408
28338,2045,476
28538,5725,541
28638,6065,604
28738,6155,666
28838,6235,728
28938,5915,789
29038,5735,849
29138,5445,908
29138,5165,967
29238,5116,026
29338,5026,085
29438,4756,170
29438,4436,255
29538,2506,343
29537,9146,433

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