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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	Romania	Cape Verde
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	22,414	422
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	22,262	430
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	22,106	438
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	21,931	447
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	21,828	455
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	21,704	463
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	21,571	471
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	21,443	478
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	21,129	486
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	20,779	494
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	20,607	501
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	20,485	509
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	20,385	516
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	20,296	524
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	20,224	531
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	20,151	539
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	20,055	546
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	19,938	553
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	19,823	562
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	19,713	568
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	19,622	574
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	19,496	580
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	19,351	585
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	19,266	590

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,

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Cape Verde; the database as a whole is cited above.