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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 BarbadosSloveniaPoland
2731,99838,358
2742,00438,344
2752,00638,339
2762,00938,320
2782,01038,283
2792,01138,268
2802,01538,249
2812,02238,220
2822,03338,204
2832,03638,204
2852,05638,572
2862,06338,606
2872,06738,615
2882,07138,623
2892,07438,591
2902,07638,573
2912,07838,544
2912,07938,516
2922,08138,511
2932,08738,502
2942,10438,475
2942,11838,443
2952,12338,250
2952,12437,914

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

Slovenia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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.