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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	Dominica	Poland	Albania	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	70	38,358	3,085	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	71	38,344	3,065	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	71	38,339	3,047	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	72	38,320	3,038	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	72	38,283	3,026	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	72	38,268	3,014	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	72	38,249	2,998	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	72	38,220	2,979	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	72	38,204	2,957	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	73	38,204	2,934	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	73	38,572	2,915	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	73	38,606	2,900	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	73	38,615	2,892	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	73	38,623	2,888	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	73	38,591	2,882	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	73	38,573	2,876	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	74	38,544	2,868	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	74	38,516	2,863	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	74	38,511	2,861	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	74	38,502	2,854	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	75	38,475	2,842	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	75	38,443	2,825	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	76	38,250	2,799	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	76	37,914	2,787	21,889

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 Dominica, Albania, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.