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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Poland	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	146,693

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,

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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