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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 BeninPolandLuxembourg
6,46138,358433
6,67738,344438
6,90238,339443
7,13038,320448
7,36038,283454
7,58938,268460
7,83838,249467
8,08938,220474
8,33538,204482
8,60338,204491
8,88438,572500
9,17938,606509
9,48638,615521
9,80538,623533
10,13538,591547
10,48038,573560
10,84238,544571
11,22038,516586
11,61338,511599
12,01838,502610
12,37038,475623
12,72538,443633
13,08138,250643
13,43937,914651

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 Benin, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.