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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 & HerzegovinaPolandBangladesh
3,81138,358132,907
3,90138,344135,207
3,91938,339137,420
3,92338,320139,573
3,94038,283141,650
3,97538,268143,644
3,99138,249145,546
3,99338,220147,376
3,99038,204149,047
3,98738,204150,562
3,98538,572152,189
3,98338,606153,927
3,98038,615155,634
3,97738,623157,326
3,97338,591158,999
3,96838,573160,650
3,96338,544162,273
3,95738,516163,938
3,95138,511165,655
3,94438,502167,358
3,93738,475169,045
3,92938,443170,709
3,92138,250172,354
3,87637,914174,217

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,

Bangladesh

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