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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 FasoPolandMalta
11,07538,358387
11,40538,344390
11,82838,339393
12,38038,320396
12,82938,283398
13,17838,268401
13,54038,249404
13,91738,220405
14,30938,204406
14,72238,204409
15,15238,572412
15,60038,606414
16,06438,615416
16,56338,623420
17,07238,591426
17,57538,573435
18,09438,544445
18,62138,516455
19,15738,511468
19,69838,502485
20,24238,475504
20,78838,443516
21,33638,250518
21,88937,914530

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, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.