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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Sweden	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,858	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,872	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	8,896	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	8,925	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,958	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,994	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	9,030	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	9,081	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	9,148	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	9,220	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	9,299	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	9,378	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	9,449	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	9,519	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	9,600	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	9,696	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	9,799	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	9,923	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,058	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,175	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,279	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,354	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,416	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,487	37,914

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

Sweden

1300–1560: Krantz, O. (2017) “Swedish GDP 1300-1560 A Tentative Estimate” Lund Papers in Economic History: General Issues; No. 152.
1560–1950: Schön, L., and O. Krantz (2015) “New Swedish Historical National Accounts since the 16th Century in Constant and Current Prices” Lund Papers in Economic History no. 140

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; the database as a whole is cited above.