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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 - KinshasaCape VerdePoland
51,18142238,358
52,78243038,344
54,45343838,339
56,17044738,320
57,86045538,283
59,59946338,268
61,47447138,249
63,47947838,220
65,59048638,204
67,80049438,204
70,11450138,572
72,55050938,606
75,13851638,615
77,79252438,623
80,53453138,591
83,36853938,573
86,22954638,544
89,19355338,516
92,20956238,511
95,23256838,502
98,32057438,475
101,49958038,443
104,76758538,250
108,17159037,914

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, Cape Verde; the database as a whole is cited above.