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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Oman	Poland	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	2,348	38,358	273
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	2,403	38,344	274
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	2,457	38,339	275
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	2,510	38,320	276
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	2,562	38,283	278
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	2,613	38,268	279
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	2,663	38,249	280
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	2,713	38,220	281
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	2,764	38,204	282
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	2,816	38,204	283
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	2,871	38,572	285
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	2,928	38,606	286
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	2,986	38,615	287
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	3,047	38,623	288
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	3,110	38,591	289
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	3,174	38,573	290
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	3,240	38,544	291
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	3,307	38,516	291
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	3,375	38,511	292
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	3,444	38,502	293
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	3,512	38,475	294
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	3,582	38,443	294
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	3,651	38,250	295
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	3,696	37,914	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.

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

Zambia

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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