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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 BarbadosPolandTajikistan
27338,3586,110
27438,3446,229
27538,3396,339
27638,3206,452
27838,2836,567
27938,2686,688
28038,2496,814
28138,2206,943
28238,2047,076
28338,2047,211
28538,5727,348
28638,6067,485
28738,6157,624
28838,6237,765
28938,5917,905
29038,5738,045
29138,5448,185
29138,5168,322
29238,5118,458
29338,5028,593
29438,4758,727
29438,4438,860
29538,2508,990
29537,9149,177

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