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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date TunisiaOmanPolandBarbados
9,4172,34838,358273
9,5142,40338,344274
9,6132,45738,339275
9,7112,51038,320276
9,8102,56238,283278
9,9062,61338,268279
9,9972,66338,249280
10,0872,71338,220281
10,1782,76438,204282
10,2742,81638,204283
10,3772,87138,572285
10,4912,92838,606286
10,6122,98638,615287
10,7373,04738,623288
10,8663,11038,591289
10,9963,17438,573290
11,1243,24038,544291
11,2483,30738,516291
11,3653,37538,511292
11,4773,44438,502293
11,5833,51238,475294
11,6813,58238,443294
11,7723,65138,250295
11,8623,69637,914295

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.

All data sources

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