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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	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	627	387
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	659	390
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	691	393
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	724	396
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	757	398
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	850	401
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	1,001	404
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	1,153	405
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	1,306	406
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	1,460	409
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	1,615	412
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	1,770	414
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	1,904	416
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	2,010	420
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	2,103	426
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	2,187	435
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	2,261	445
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	2,326	455
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	2,384	468
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	2,435	485
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	2,480	504
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	2,519	516
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	2,553	518
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	2,559	530

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, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.