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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 BarbadosPolandTanzania
27338,35832,912
27438,34433,953
27538,33934,974
27638,32036,021
27838,28337,100
27938,26838,167
28038,24939,262
28138,22040,387
28238,20441,557
28338,20442,741
28538,57243,889
28638,60645,132
28738,61546,531
28838,62347,965
28938,59149,437
29038,57350,965
29138,54452,604
29138,51654,336
29238,51156,062
29338,50257,765
29438,47559,465
29438,44361,191
29538,25062,944
29537,91464,835

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