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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	Ecuador	Burkina Faso	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	277	12,268	11,075	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	281	12,446	11,405	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	285	12,629	11,828	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,827	12,380	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	289	13,074	12,829	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,368	13,178	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,661	13,540	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,915	13,917	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,133	14,309	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,352	14,722	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	319	14,569	15,152	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	318	14,786	15,600	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	319	15,002	16,064	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	321	15,218	16,563	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	324	15,433	17,072	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	327	15,647	17,575	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	331	15,860	18,094	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	335	16,072	18,621	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	343	16,282	19,157	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	353	16,489	19,698	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	361	16,693	20,242	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	366	16,894	20,788	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	372	17,093	21,336	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	380	17,288	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

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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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; the database as a whole is cited above.