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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date PolandCentral African RepublicBarbados
38,3583,889273
38,3443,980274
38,3394,054275
38,3204,128276
38,2834,215278
38,2684,289279
38,2494,363280
38,2204,449281
38,2044,544282
38,2044,641283
38,5724,742285
38,6064,845286
38,6154,950287
38,6235,057288
38,5915,167289
38,5735,278290
38,5445,392291
38,5165,507291
38,5115,625292
38,5025,745293
38,4755,874294
38,4436,025294
38,2506,154295
37,9146,291295

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