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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	Congo - Kinshasa	Poland	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	277	51,181	38,358	273
Dec 31, 2000	281	52,782	38,344	274
Dec 31, 2001	285	54,453	38,339	275
Dec 31, 2002	288	56,170	38,320	276
Dec 31, 2003	289	57,860	38,283	278
Dec 31, 2004	293	59,599	38,268	279
Dec 31, 2005	296	61,474	38,249	280
Dec 31, 2006	304	63,479	38,220	281
Dec 31, 2007	311	65,590	38,204	282
Dec 31, 2008	319	67,800	38,204	283
Dec 31, 2009	319	70,114	38,572	285
Dec 31, 2010	318	72,550	38,606	286
Dec 31, 2011	319	75,138	38,615	287
Dec 31, 2012	321	77,792	38,623	288
Dec 31, 2013	324	80,534	38,591	289
Dec 31, 2014	327	83,368	38,573	290
Dec 31, 2015	331	86,229	38,544	291
Dec 31, 2016	335	89,193	38,516	291
Dec 31, 2017	343	92,209	38,511	292
Dec 31, 2018	353	95,232	38,502	293
Dec 31, 2019	361	98,320	38,475	294
Dec 31, 2020	366	101,499	38,443	294
Dec 31, 2021	372	104,767	38,250	295
Dec 31, 2022	380	108,171	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

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