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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 BarbadosVietnamPoland
27378,39438,358
27479,47238,344
27580,54638,339
27681,63738,320
27882,72038,283
27983,82138,268
28084,94238,249
28186,03638,220
28287,13638,204
28388,25338,204
28589,37338,572
28690,48138,606
28791,59138,615
28892,72038,623
28993,88338,591
29095,05538,573
29196,22238,544
29197,38038,516
29298,50738,511
29399,60438,502
294100,69538,475
294101,77138,443
295102,81538,250
295103,57437,914

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