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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 - KinshasaHungaryOman
51,18110,2442,348
52,78210,2182,403
54,45310,1942,457
56,17010,1652,510
57,86010,1362,562
59,59910,1142,613
61,47410,0942,663
63,47910,0782,713
65,59010,0622,764
67,80010,0452,816
70,11410,0292,871
72,55010,0072,928
75,1389,9782,986
77,7929,9273,047
80,5349,9003,110
83,3689,8733,174
86,2299,8503,240
89,1939,8213,307
92,2099,7943,375
95,2329,7823,444
98,3209,7783,512
101,4999,7573,582
104,7679,7163,651
108,1719,6903,696

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