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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 BangladeshBosnia & HerzegovinaPoland
132,9073,81138,358
135,2073,90138,344
137,4203,91938,339
139,5733,92338,320
141,6503,94038,283
143,6443,97538,268
145,5463,99138,249
147,3763,99338,220
149,0473,99038,204
150,5623,98738,204
152,1893,98538,572
153,9273,98338,606
155,6343,98038,615
157,3263,97738,623
158,9993,97338,591
160,6503,96838,573
162,2733,96338,544
163,9383,95738,516
165,6553,95138,511
167,3583,94438,502
169,0453,93738,475
170,7093,92938,443
172,3543,92138,250
174,2173,87637,914

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

Bangladesh

  • 1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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,