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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Poland	Panama
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	2,848
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	2,900
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	2,952
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	3,003
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	3,054
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	3,104
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	3,155
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	3,206
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	3,258
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	3,310
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	3,360
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	3,411
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	3,460
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	3,510
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	3,559
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	3,608
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	3,657
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	3,705
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	3,753
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	3,801
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	3,862
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	3,918
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	3,970
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	4,023

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,

Panama

1906–1945: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.