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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 BarbadosHungaryOmanMali
27310,2442,34810,596
27410,2182,40310,833
27510,1942,45710,890
27610,1652,51011,007
27810,1362,56211,307
27910,1142,61311,579
28010,0942,66311,804
28110,0782,71312,043
28210,0622,76412,337
28310,0452,81612,657
28510,0292,87112,986
28610,0072,92813,325
2879,9782,98613,679
2889,9273,04714,040
2899,9003,11014,412
2909,8733,17414,803
2919,8503,24015,210
2919,8213,30715,629
2929,7943,37516,060
2939,7823,44416,507
2949,7783,51216,967
2949,7573,58217,442
2959,7163,65117,930
2959,6903,69618,494

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, Oman, Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.