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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Uganda	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	23,408	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	24,195	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	24,992	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	25,846	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	26,661	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	27,414	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	28,200	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	29,021	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	29,846	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	30,647	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	31,469	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	32,343	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	33,257	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	34,234	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	35,271	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	36,419	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	37,673	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	39,157	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	40,879	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	42,329	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	43,639	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	45,120	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,645	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	48,065	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

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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.