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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosPolandSudan
27338,35826,168
27438,34426,771
27538,33927,387
27638,32028,017
27838,28328,662
27938,26829,321
28038,24929,996
28138,22030,686
28238,20431,393
28338,20432,137
28538,57233,078
28638,60633,891
28738,61534,568
28838,62335,293
28938,59136,093
29038,57337,058
29138,54438,165
29138,51639,294
29238,51140,512
29338,50241,764
29438,47542,952
29438,44344,121
29538,25045,290
29537,91446,498

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,

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