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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	United States	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	279,040	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	282,162	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	284,969	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	287,625	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	290,108	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	292,805	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	295,517	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	298,380	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	301,231	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	304,094	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	306,772	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	309,327	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	311,583	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	313,878	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	316,060	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	318,386	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	320,739	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	323,072	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	325,122	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	326,838	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	328,330	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	331,512	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	332,032	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	333,288	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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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.