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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 - KinshasaHondurasPoland
51,1816,19838,358
52,7826,36738,344
54,4536,53538,339
56,1706,69838,320
57,8606,86338,283
59,5997,02838,268
61,4747,19438,249
63,4797,35938,220
65,5907,52238,204
67,8007,68238,204
70,1147,83938,572
72,5507,99138,606
75,1388,14138,615
77,7928,28838,623
80,5348,42938,591
83,3688,54638,573
86,2298,66138,544
89,1938,77038,516
92,2098,87838,511
95,2329,00238,502
98,3209,15438,475
101,4999,30438,443
104,7679,44838,250
108,1719,59037,914

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