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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 - KinshasaHungaryLaos
51,18110,2445,286
52,78210,2185,397
54,45310,1945,499
56,17010,1655,578
57,86010,1365,654
59,59910,1145,746
61,47410,0945,836
63,47910,0785,931
65,59010,0626,035
67,80010,0456,145
70,11410,0296,257
72,55010,0076,368
75,1389,9786,477
77,7929,9276,586
80,5349,9006,695
83,3689,8736,804
86,2299,8506,912
89,1939,8217,019
92,2099,7947,127
95,2329,7827,234
98,3209,7787,343
101,4999,7577,452
104,7679,7167,560
108,1719,6907,666

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

Hungary

  • 1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
  • 1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
  • 1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa, Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.