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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	Burkina Faso	Poland	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	277	11,075	38,358	627
Dec 31, 2000	281	11,405	38,344	659
Dec 31, 2001	285	11,828	38,339	691
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,380	38,320	724
Dec 31, 2003	289	12,829	38,283	757
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,178	38,268	850
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,540	38,249	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,917	38,220	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,309	38,204	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,722	38,204	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	319	15,152	38,572	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	318	15,600	38,606	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	319	16,064	38,615	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	321	16,563	38,623	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	324	17,072	38,591	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	327	17,575	38,573	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	331	18,094	38,544	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	335	18,621	38,516	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,157	38,511	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,698	38,502	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	361	20,242	38,475	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	366	20,788	38,443	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	372	21,336	38,250	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	380	21,889	37,914	2,559

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