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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	Burkina Faso	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,358	11,075	387
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,344	11,405	390
Dec 31, 2001	285	38,339	11,828	393
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,320	12,380	396
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,283	12,829	398
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,268	13,178	401
Dec 31, 2005	296	38,249	13,540	404
Dec 31, 2006	304	38,220	13,917	405
Dec 31, 2007	311	38,204	14,309	406
Dec 31, 2008	319	38,204	14,722	409
Dec 31, 2009	319	38,572	15,152	412
Dec 31, 2010	318	38,606	15,600	414
Dec 31, 2011	319	38,615	16,064	416
Dec 31, 2012	321	38,623	16,563	420
Dec 31, 2013	324	38,591	17,072	426
Dec 31, 2014	327	38,573	17,575	435
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,544	18,094	445
Dec 31, 2016	335	38,516	18,621	455
Dec 31, 2017	343	38,511	19,157	468
Dec 31, 2018	353	38,502	19,698	485
Dec 31, 2019	361	38,475	20,242	504
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,443	20,788	516
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,250	21,336	518
Dec 31, 2022	380	37,914	21,889	530

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, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.