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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 YemenPolandBarbados
16,72838,358273
17,23638,344274
17,76238,339275
18,31038,320276
18,85538,283278
19,41038,268279
20,00038,249280
20,61138,220281
21,23638,204282
21,87838,204283
22,53338,572285
23,19538,606286
23,88038,615287
24,59438,623288
25,31138,591289
26,02038,573290
26,69838,544291
27,34738,516291
27,98538,511292
28,60838,502293
29,21638,475294
29,81138,443294
30,39938,250295
31,05837,914295

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.

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