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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Greece	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	10,618	273
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	10,662	274
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	10,718	275
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	10,757	276
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	10,783	278
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	10,809	279
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	10,841	280
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	10,874	281
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	10,901	282
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	10,930	283
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	10,959	285
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	10,973	286
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	10,957	287
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	10,898	288
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	10,819	289
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	10,747	290
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	10,677	291
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	10,633	291
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	10,612	292
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	10,590	293
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	10,579	294
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	10,556	294
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	10,499	295
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	10,437	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,

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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