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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 - KinshasaMoldovaHungary
51,1814,24410,244
52,7824,19910,218
54,4534,15410,194
56,1704,10810,165
57,8604,05910,136
59,5994,01310,114
61,4743,96610,094
63,4793,91910,078
65,5903,87310,062
67,8003,82910,045
70,1143,78810,029
72,5503,74810,007
75,1383,7099,978
77,7923,6719,927
80,5343,6339,900
83,3683,5959,873
86,2293,5589,850
89,1933,5229,821
92,2093,4859,794
95,2323,4489,782
98,3203,4129,778
101,4993,3769,757
104,7673,3399,716
108,1713,5709,690

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