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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 - KinshasaCentral African RepublicPoland
51,1813,88938,358
52,7823,98038,344
54,4534,05438,339
56,1704,12838,320
57,8604,21538,283
59,5994,28938,268
61,4744,36338,249
63,4794,44938,220
65,5904,54438,204
67,8004,64138,204
70,1144,74238,572
72,5504,84538,606
75,1384,95038,615
77,7925,05738,623
80,5345,16738,591
83,3685,27838,573
86,2295,39238,544
89,1935,50738,516
92,2095,62538,511
95,2325,74538,502
98,3205,87438,475
101,4996,02538,443
104,7676,15438,250
108,1716,29137,914

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, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.