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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 - KinshasaBeninPoland
51,1816,46138,358
52,7826,67738,344
54,4536,90238,339
56,1707,13038,320
57,8607,36038,283
59,5997,58938,268
61,4747,83838,249
63,4798,08938,220
65,5908,33538,204
67,8008,60338,204
70,1148,88438,572
72,5509,17938,606
75,1389,48638,615
77,7929,80538,623
80,53410,13538,591
83,36810,48038,573
86,22910,84238,544
89,19311,22038,516
92,20911,61338,511
95,23212,01838,502
98,32012,37038,475
101,49912,72538,443
104,76713,08138,250
108,17113,43937,914

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