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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Bosnia & HerzegovinaOmanPoland
3,8112,34838,358
3,9012,40338,344
3,9192,45738,339
3,9232,51038,320
3,9402,56238,283
3,9752,61338,268
3,9912,66338,249
3,9932,71338,220
3,9902,76438,204
3,9872,81638,204
3,9852,87138,572
3,9832,92838,606
3,9802,98638,615
3,9773,04738,623
3,9733,11038,591
3,9683,17438,573
3,9633,24038,544
3,9573,30738,516
3,9513,37538,511
3,9443,44438,502
3,9373,51238,475
3,9293,58238,443
3,9213,65138,250
3,8763,69637,914

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

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; the database as a whole is cited above.