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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosPolandEl Salvador
27338,3585,767
27438,3445,825
27538,3395,856
27638,3205,869
27838,2835,880
27938,2685,888
28038,2495,899
28138,2205,906
28238,2045,911
28338,2045,934
28538,5725,954
28638,6065,967
28738,6155,984
28838,6236,033
28938,5916,121
29038,5736,179
29138,5446,205
29138,5166,248
29238,5116,304
29338,5026,368
29438,4756,372
29438,4436,385
29538,2506,407
29537,9146,429

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, El Salvador; the database as a whole is cited above.