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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	Moldova	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,358	4,244	273
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,344	4,199	274
Dec 31, 2001	285	38,339	4,154	275
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,320	4,108	276
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,283	4,059	278
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,268	4,013	279
Dec 31, 2005	296	38,249	3,966	280
Dec 31, 2006	304	38,220	3,919	281
Dec 31, 2007	311	38,204	3,873	282
Dec 31, 2008	319	38,204	3,829	283
Dec 31, 2009	319	38,572	3,788	285
Dec 31, 2010	318	38,606	3,748	286
Dec 31, 2011	319	38,615	3,709	287
Dec 31, 2012	321	38,623	3,671	288
Dec 31, 2013	324	38,591	3,633	289
Dec 31, 2014	327	38,573	3,595	290
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,544	3,558	291
Dec 31, 2016	335	38,516	3,522	291
Dec 31, 2017	343	38,511	3,485	292
Dec 31, 2018	353	38,502	3,448	293
Dec 31, 2019	361	38,475	3,412	294
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,443	3,376	294
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,250	3,339	295
Dec 31, 2022	380	37,914	3,570	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 Moldova, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.