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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Poland	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	38,358	273
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	38,344	274
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	38,339	275
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	38,320	276
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	38,283	278
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	38,268	279
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	38,249	280
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	38,220	281
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	38,204	282
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	38,204	283
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	38,572	285
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	38,606	286
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	38,615	287
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	38,623	288
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	38,591	289
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	38,573	290
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	38,544	291
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	38,516	291
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	38,511	292
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	38,502	293
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	38,475	294
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	38,443	294
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	38,250	295
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	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.

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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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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 Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.