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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 BarbadosPolandYemen
27338,35816,728
27438,34417,236
27538,33917,762
27638,32018,310
27838,28318,855
27938,26819,410
28038,24920,000
28138,22020,611
28238,20421,236
28338,20421,878
28538,57222,533
28638,60623,195
28738,61523,880
28838,62324,594
28938,59125,311
29038,57326,020
29138,54426,698
29138,51627,347
29238,51127,985
29338,50228,608
29438,47529,216
29438,44329,811
29538,25030,399
29537,91431,058

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