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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 - KinshasaMoldovaPoland
51,1814,24438,358
52,7824,19938,344
54,4534,15438,339
56,1704,10838,320
57,8604,05938,283
59,5994,01338,268
61,4743,96638,249
63,4793,91938,220
65,5903,87338,204
67,8003,82938,204
70,1143,78838,572
72,5503,74838,606
75,1383,70938,615
77,7923,67138,623
80,5343,63338,591
83,3683,59538,573
86,2293,55838,544
89,1933,52238,516
92,2093,48538,511
95,2323,44838,502
98,3203,41238,475
101,4993,37638,443
104,7673,33938,250
108,1713,57037,914

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