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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date MaliPolandSt. Lucia
10,59638,358152
10,83338,344153
10,89038,339154
11,00738,320155
11,30738,283156
11,57938,268157
11,80438,249157
12,04338,220158
12,33738,204159
12,65738,204160
12,98638,572160
13,32538,606161
13,67938,615162
14,04038,623162
14,41238,591163
14,80338,573163
15,21038,544164
15,62938,516164
16,06038,511165
16,50738,502166
16,96738,475166
17,44238,443167
17,93038,250167
18,49437,914167

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

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 Mali, St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.