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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 - KinshasaMauritaniaPoland
51,1812,43738,358
52,7822,50138,344
54,4532,56638,339
56,1702,63238,320
57,8602,69938,283
59,5992,76838,268
61,4742,83838,249
63,4792,90938,220
65,5902,98138,204
67,8003,05538,204
70,1143,12938,572
72,5503,20538,606
75,1383,28238,615
77,7923,35938,623
80,5343,43838,591
83,3683,51738,573
86,2293,59738,544
89,1933,67738,516
92,2093,75938,511
95,2323,84038,502
98,3203,94238,475
101,4994,04538,443
104,7674,15038,250
108,1714,25937,914

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