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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 BangladeshPolandBosnia & Herzegovina
132,90738,3583,811
135,20738,3443,901
137,42038,3393,919
139,57338,3203,923
141,65038,2833,940
143,64438,2683,975
145,54638,2493,991
147,37638,2203,993
149,04738,2043,990
150,56238,2043,987
152,18938,5723,985
153,92738,6063,983
155,63438,6153,980
157,32638,6233,977
158,99938,5913,973
160,65038,5733,968
162,27338,5443,963
163,93838,5163,957
165,65538,5113,951
167,35838,5023,944
169,04538,4753,937
170,70938,4433,929
172,35438,2503,921
174,21737,9143,876

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

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,

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project