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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Albania	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	3,085	273
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	3,065	274
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	3,047	275
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	3,038	276
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	3,026	278
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	3,014	279
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	2,998	280
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	2,979	281
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	2,957	282
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	2,934	283
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	2,915	285
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	2,900	286
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	2,892	287
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	2,888	288
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	2,882	289
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	2,876	290
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	2,868	291
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	2,863	291
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	2,861	292
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	2,854	293
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	2,842	294
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	2,825	294
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	2,799	295
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	2,787	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

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