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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Belgium	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	10,227	273
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	10,252	274
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	10,288	275
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	10,334	276
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	10,377	278
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	10,422	279
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	10,480	280
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	10,549	281
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	10,627	282
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	10,711	283
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	10,797	285
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	10,897	286
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	11,039	287
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	11,108	288
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	11,160	289
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	11,210	290
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	11,275	291
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	11,332	291
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	11,376	292
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	11,429	293
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	11,491	294
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	11,546	294
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	11,594	295
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	11,695	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,

Belgium

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.