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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 BarbadosPolandOmanMoldova
27338,3582,3484,244
27438,3442,4034,199
27538,3392,4574,154
27638,3202,5104,108
27838,2832,5624,059
27938,2682,6134,013
28038,2492,6633,966
28138,2202,7133,919
28238,2042,7643,873
28338,2042,8163,829
28538,5722,8713,788
28638,6062,9283,748
28738,6152,9863,709
28838,6233,0473,671
28938,5913,1103,633
29038,5733,1743,595
29138,5443,2403,558
29138,5163,3073,522
29238,5113,3753,485
29338,5023,4443,448
29438,4753,5123,412
29438,4433,5823,376
29538,2503,6513,339
29537,9143,6963,570

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