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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 Congo - KinshasaAlbaniaPoland
51,1813,08538,358
52,7823,06538,344
54,4533,04738,339
56,1703,03838,320
57,8603,02638,283
59,5993,01438,268
61,4742,99838,249
63,4792,97938,220
65,5902,95738,204
67,8002,93438,204
70,1142,91538,572
72,5502,90038,606
75,1382,89238,615
77,7922,88838,623
80,5342,88238,591
83,3682,87638,573
86,2292,86838,544
89,1932,86338,516
92,2092,86138,511
95,2322,85438,502
98,3202,84238,475
101,4992,82538,443
104,7672,79938,250
108,1712,78737,914

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.