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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Poland	Paraguay	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	5,366	152
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	5,473	153
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	5,579	154
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	5,683	155
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	5,786	156
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	5,886	157
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	5,984	157
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	6,080	158
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	6,173	159
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	6,264	160
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	6,352	160
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	6,438	161
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	6,522	162
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	6,605	162
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	6,688	163
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	6,769	163
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	6,850	164
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	6,930	164
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	7,012	165
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	7,095	166
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	7,179	166
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	7,263	167
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	7,348	167
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	7,432	167

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, Paraguay, St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.