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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 BarbadosPolandPuerto RicoLuxembourg
27338,3583,800433
27438,3443,811438
27538,3393,819443
27638,3203,824448
27838,2833,826454
27938,2683,827460
28038,2493,822467
28138,2203,805474
28238,2043,783482
28338,2043,761491
28538,5723,741500
28638,6063,722509
28738,6153,679521
28838,6233,636533
28938,5913,589547
29038,5733,534560
29138,5443,473571
29138,5163,411586
29238,5113,352599
29338,5023,295610
29438,4753,268623
29438,4433,247633
29538,2503,232643
29537,9143,228651

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, Puerto Rico, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.