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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Burkina FasoPolandSt. Lucia
11,07538,358152
11,40538,344153
11,82838,339154
12,38038,320155
12,82938,283156
13,17838,268157
13,54038,249157
13,91738,220158
14,30938,204159
14,72238,204160
15,15238,572160
15,60038,606161
16,06438,615162
16,56338,623162
17,07238,591163
17,57538,573163
18,09438,544164
18,62138,516164
19,15738,511165
19,69838,502166
20,24238,475166
20,78838,443167
21,33638,250167
21,88937,914167

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