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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 - KinshasaHaitiPoland
51,1818,12138,358
52,7828,27938,344
54,4538,43038,339
56,1708,58038,320
57,8608,73938,283
59,5998,90038,268
61,4749,06138,249
63,4799,21638,220
65,5909,36438,204
67,8009,50838,204
70,1149,65238,572
72,5509,55338,606
75,1389,67038,615
77,7929,79338,623
80,5349,92238,591
83,36810,04738,573
86,22910,25438,544
89,19310,48638,516
92,20910,64738,511
95,23210,78838,502
98,32010,93338,475
101,49911,07738,443
104,76711,21538,250
108,17111,34937,914

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