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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 BarbadosUzbekistanPoland
27324,70138,358
27425,04238,344
27525,37238,339
27625,69638,320
27825,99238,283
27926,26838,268
28026,54038,249
28126,81238,220
28227,08138,204
28327,34738,204
28527,60938,572
28627,86938,606
28728,13238,615
28828,39838,623
28928,66638,591
29028,93438,573
29129,20538,544
29129,48038,516
29229,75638,511
29330,03138,502
29430,30538,475
29430,57638,443
29530,84338,250
29531,33737,914

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

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, Uzbekistan; the database as a whole is cited above.