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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 & HerzegovinaQatarPoland
3,81162738,358
3,90165938,344
3,91969138,339
3,92372438,320
3,94075738,283
3,97585038,268
3,9911,00138,249
3,9931,15338,220
3,9901,30638,204
3,9871,46038,204
3,9851,61538,572
3,9831,77038,606
3,9801,90438,615
3,9772,01038,623
3,9732,10338,591
3,9682,18738,573
3,9632,26138,544
3,9572,32638,516
3,9512,38438,511
3,9442,43538,502
3,9372,48038,475
3,9292,51938,443
3,9212,55338,250
3,8762,55937,914

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 Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.