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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	Poland	Albania	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,358	3,085	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,344	3,065	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	285	38,339	3,047	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,320	3,038	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,283	3,026	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,268	3,014	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	296	38,249	2,998	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	304	38,220	2,979	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	311	38,204	2,957	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	319	38,204	2,934	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	319	38,572	2,915	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	318	38,606	2,900	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	319	38,615	2,892	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	321	38,623	2,888	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	324	38,591	2,882	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	327	38,573	2,876	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,544	2,868	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	335	38,516	2,863	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	343	38,511	2,861	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	353	38,502	2,854	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	361	38,475	2,842	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,443	2,825	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,250	2,799	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	380	37,914	2,787	7,666

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 Albania, Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.