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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	Qatar	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	627	433
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	659	438
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	691	443
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	724	448
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	757	454
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	850	460
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	1,001	467
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	1,153	474
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	1,306	482
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	1,460	491
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	1,615	500
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	1,770	509
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	1,904	521
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	2,010	533
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	2,103	547
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	2,187	560
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	2,261	571
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	2,326	586
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	2,384	599
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	2,435	610
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	2,480	623
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	2,519	633
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	2,553	643
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	2,559	651

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