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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	Iceland	Barbados	Poland	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	277	273	38,358	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	281	274	38,344	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	285	275	38,339	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	288	276	38,320	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	289	278	38,283	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	293	279	38,268	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	296	280	38,249	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	304	281	38,220	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	311	282	38,204	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	319	283	38,204	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	319	285	38,572	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	318	286	38,606	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	319	287	38,615	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	321	288	38,623	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	324	289	38,591	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	327	290	38,573	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	331	291	38,544	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	335	291	38,516	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	343	292	38,511	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	353	293	38,502	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	361	294	38,475	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	366	294	38,443	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	372	295	38,250	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	380	295	37,914	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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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