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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 Bosnia & HerzegovinaBangladeshPoland
3,811132,90738,358
3,901135,20738,344
3,919137,42038,339
3,923139,57338,320
3,940141,65038,283
3,975143,64438,268
3,991145,54638,249
3,993147,37638,220
3,990149,04738,204
3,987150,56238,204
3,985152,18938,572
3,983153,92738,606
3,980155,63438,615
3,977157,32638,623
3,973158,99938,591
3,968160,65038,573
3,963162,27338,544
3,957163,93838,516
3,951165,65538,511
3,944167,35838,502
3,937169,04538,475
3,929170,70938,443
3,921172,35438,250
3,876174,21737,914

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

Bangladesh

  • 1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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,