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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Paraguay	Poland	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	273	5,366	38,358	433
Dec 31, 2000	274	5,473	38,344	438
Dec 31, 2001	275	5,579	38,339	443
Dec 31, 2002	276	5,683	38,320	448
Dec 31, 2003	278	5,786	38,283	454
Dec 31, 2004	279	5,886	38,268	460
Dec 31, 2005	280	5,984	38,249	467
Dec 31, 2006	281	6,080	38,220	474
Dec 31, 2007	282	6,173	38,204	482
Dec 31, 2008	283	6,264	38,204	491
Dec 31, 2009	285	6,352	38,572	500
Dec 31, 2010	286	6,438	38,606	509
Dec 31, 2011	287	6,522	38,615	521
Dec 31, 2012	288	6,605	38,623	533
Dec 31, 2013	289	6,688	38,591	547
Dec 31, 2014	290	6,769	38,573	560
Dec 31, 2015	291	6,850	38,544	571
Dec 31, 2016	291	6,930	38,516	586
Dec 31, 2017	292	7,012	38,511	599
Dec 31, 2018	293	7,095	38,502	610
Dec 31, 2019	294	7,179	38,475	623
Dec 31, 2020	294	7,263	38,443	633
Dec 31, 2021	295	7,348	38,250	643
Dec 31, 2022	295	7,432	37,914	651

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.

All data sources

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, Paraguay, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.