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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 Burkina FasoCentral African RepublicPoland
11,0753,88938,358
11,4053,98038,344
11,8284,05438,339
12,3804,12838,320
12,8294,21538,283
13,1784,28938,268
13,5404,36338,249
13,9174,44938,220
14,3094,54438,204
14,7224,64138,204
15,1524,74238,572
15,6004,84538,606
16,0644,95038,615
16,5635,05738,623
17,0725,16738,591
17,5755,27838,573
18,0945,39238,544
18,6215,50738,516
19,1575,62538,511
19,6985,74538,502
20,2425,87438,475
20,7886,02538,443
21,3366,15438,250
21,8896,29137,914

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

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 Burkina Faso, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.