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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 - KinshasaHungarySudan
51,18110,24426,168
52,78210,21826,771
54,45310,19427,387
56,17010,16528,017
57,86010,13628,662
59,59910,11429,321
61,47410,09429,996
63,47910,07830,686
65,59010,06231,393
67,80010,04532,137
70,11410,02933,078
72,55010,00733,891
75,1389,97834,568
77,7929,92735,293
80,5349,90036,093
83,3689,87337,058
86,2299,85038,165
89,1939,82139,294
92,2099,79440,512
95,2329,78241,764
98,3209,77842,952
101,4999,75744,121
104,7679,71645,290
108,1719,69046,498

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