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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 & HerzegovinaPolandLaos
3,81138,3585,286
3,90138,3445,397
3,91938,3395,499
3,92338,3205,578
3,94038,2835,654
3,97538,2685,746
3,99138,2495,836
3,99338,2205,931
3,99038,2046,035
3,98738,2046,145
3,98538,5726,257
3,98338,6066,368
3,98038,6156,477
3,97738,6236,586
3,97338,5916,695
3,96838,5736,804
3,96338,5446,912
3,95738,5167,019
3,95138,5117,127
3,94438,5027,234
3,93738,4757,343
3,92938,4437,452
3,92138,2507,560
3,87637,9147,666

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 Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.