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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 & HerzegovinaPolandPhilippines
3,81138,35879,346
3,90138,34481,131
3,91938,33983,023
3,92338,32084,876
3,94038,28386,697
3,97538,26888,568
3,99138,24990,418
3,99338,22092,253
3,99038,20494,098
3,98738,20495,923
3,98538,57297,627
3,98338,60699,317
3,98038,615100,999
3,97738,623102,618
3,97338,591104,299
3,96838,573106,076
3,96338,544107,868
3,95738,516109,493
3,95138,511111,094
3,94438,502112,843
3,93738,475114,636
3,92938,443117,026
3,92138,250119,473
3,87637,914121,234

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,

Philippines

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.