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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	Romania	Burkina Faso	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	70	22,414	11,075	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	71	22,262	11,405	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	71	22,106	11,828	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	72	21,931	12,380	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	72	21,828	12,829	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	72	21,704	13,178	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	72	21,571	13,540	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	72	21,443	13,917	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	72	21,129	14,309	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	73	20,779	14,722	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	73	20,607	15,152	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	73	20,485	15,600	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	73	20,385	16,064	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	73	20,296	16,563	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	73	20,224	17,072	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	73	20,151	17,575	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	74	20,055	18,094	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	74	19,938	18,621	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	74	19,823	19,157	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	74	19,713	19,698	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	75	19,622	20,242	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	75	19,496	20,788	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	76	19,351	21,336	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	76	19,266	21,889	37,914

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.

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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