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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Uruguay	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,234	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,246	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,257	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	3,268	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	3,277	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,285	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,291	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,298	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,305	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	3,313	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	3,321	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	3,329	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	3,337	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	3,345	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	3,353	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	3,362	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	3,371	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	3,380	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	3,390	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	3,399	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	3,408	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	3,417	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	3,426	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	3,422	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

Uruguay

1800-1870: 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)
1870–2014: Bèrtola, L. (2016). El PIB per Capita de Uruguay 1870 - 2016: una reconstruccion. PHES working paper No 48

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.