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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosDominicaHungaryOman
2737010,2442,348
2747110,2182,403
2757110,1942,457
2767210,1652,510
2787210,1362,562
2797210,1142,613
2807210,0942,663
2817210,0782,713
2827210,0622,764
2837310,0452,816
2857310,0292,871
2867310,0072,928
287739,9782,986
288739,9273,047
289739,9003,110
290739,8733,174
291749,8503,240
291749,8213,307
292749,7943,375
293749,7823,444
294759,7783,512
294759,7573,582
295769,7163,651
295769,6903,696

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.

All data sources

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

Hungary

  • 1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
  • 1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
  • 1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Dominica, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.