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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Burkina Faso	Poland	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	11,075	38,358	273
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	11,405	38,344	274
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	11,828	38,339	275
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	12,380	38,320	276
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	12,829	38,283	278
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	13,178	38,268	279
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	13,540	38,249	280
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	13,917	38,220	281
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	14,309	38,204	282
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	14,722	38,204	283
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	15,152	38,572	285
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	15,600	38,606	286
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	16,064	38,615	287
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	16,563	38,623	288
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	17,072	38,591	289
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	17,575	38,573	290
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	18,094	38,544	291
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	18,621	38,516	291
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	19,157	38,511	292
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	19,698	38,502	293
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	20,242	38,475	294
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	20,788	38,443	294
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	21,336	38,250	295
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	21,889	37,914	295

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.

All data sources

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Burkina Faso, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.