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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 - KinshasaBosnia & HerzegovinaPoland
51,1813,81138,358
52,7823,90138,344
54,4533,91938,339
56,1703,92338,320
57,8603,94038,283
59,5993,97538,268
61,4743,99138,249
63,4793,99338,220
65,5903,99038,204
67,8003,98738,204
70,1143,98538,572
72,5503,98338,606
75,1383,98038,615
77,7923,97738,623
80,5343,97338,591
83,3683,96838,573
86,2293,96338,544
89,1933,95738,516
92,2093,95138,511
95,2323,94438,502
98,3203,93738,475
101,4993,92938,443
104,7673,92138,250
108,1713,87637,914

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

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; the database as a whole is cited above.