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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosPolandOmanAlbania
27338,3582,3483,085
27438,3442,4033,065
27538,3392,4573,047
27638,3202,5103,038
27838,2832,5623,026
27938,2682,6133,014
28038,2492,6632,998
28138,2202,7132,979
28238,2042,7642,957
28338,2042,8162,934
28538,5722,8712,915
28638,6062,9282,900
28738,6152,9862,892
28838,6233,0472,888
28938,5913,1102,882
29038,5733,1742,876
29138,5443,2402,868
29138,5163,3072,863
29238,5113,3752,861
29338,5023,4442,854
29438,4753,5122,842
29438,4433,5822,825
29538,2503,6512,799
29537,9143,6962,787

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.

All data sources

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, Oman, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.