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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 & HerzegovinaYemenPoland
3,81116,72838,358
3,90117,23638,344
3,91917,76238,339
3,92318,31038,320
3,94018,85538,283
3,97519,41038,268
3,99120,00038,249
3,99320,61138,220
3,99021,23638,204
3,98721,87838,204
3,98522,53338,572
3,98323,19538,606
3,98023,88038,615
3,97724,59438,623
3,97325,31138,591
3,96826,02038,573
3,96326,69838,544
3,95727,34738,516
3,95127,98538,511
3,94428,60838,502
3,93729,21638,475
3,92929,81138,443
3,92130,39938,250
3,87631,05837,914

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 Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.