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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bangladesh	Poland	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	132,907	38,358	152
Dec 31, 2000	135,207	38,344	153
Dec 31, 2001	137,420	38,339	154
Dec 31, 2002	139,573	38,320	155
Dec 31, 2003	141,650	38,283	156
Dec 31, 2004	143,644	38,268	157
Dec 31, 2005	145,546	38,249	157
Dec 31, 2006	147,376	38,220	158
Dec 31, 2007	149,047	38,204	159
Dec 31, 2008	150,562	38,204	160
Dec 31, 2009	152,189	38,572	160
Dec 31, 2010	153,927	38,606	161
Dec 31, 2011	155,634	38,615	162
Dec 31, 2012	157,326	38,623	162
Dec 31, 2013	158,999	38,591	163
Dec 31, 2014	160,650	38,573	163
Dec 31, 2015	162,273	38,544	164
Dec 31, 2016	163,938	38,516	164
Dec 31, 2017	165,655	38,511	165
Dec 31, 2018	167,358	38,502	166
Dec 31, 2019	169,045	38,475	166
Dec 31, 2020	170,709	38,443	167
Dec 31, 2021	172,354	38,250	167
Dec 31, 2022	174,217	37,914	167

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

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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 St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.