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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Seychelles	Barbados	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	78	273	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	79	274	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	80	275	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	81	276	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	82	278	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	83	279	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	84	280	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	85	281	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	86	282	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	87	283	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	87	285	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	88	286	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	89	287	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	90	288	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	91	289	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	92	290	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	92	291	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	93	291	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	94	292	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	95	293	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	96	294	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	97	294	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	98	295	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	98	295	37,914

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