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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 BarbadosPolandPalestinian Territories
27338,3582,996
27438,3443,075
27538,3393,155
27638,3203,235
27838,2833,315
27938,2683,396
28038,2493,478
28138,2203,559
28238,2043,642
28338,2043,727
28538,5723,817
28638,6063,907
28738,6153,997
28838,6234,088
28938,5914,178
29038,5734,269
29138,5444,359
29138,5164,451
29238,5114,533
29338,5024,615
29438,4754,715
29438,4434,820
29538,2504,930
29537,9145,042

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, Palestinian Territories; the database as a whole is cited above.