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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 BarbadosPolandChad
27338,3587,559
27438,3447,821
27538,3398,092
27638,3208,395
27838,2838,763
27938,2689,191
28038,2499,594
28138,2209,967
28238,20410,338
28338,20410,728
28538,57211,139
28638,60611,550
28738,61511,983
28838,62312,427
28938,59112,895
29038,57313,379
29138,54413,823
29138,51614,277
29238,51114,765
29338,50215,252
29438,47515,750
29438,44316,257
29538,25016,776
29537,91417,307

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