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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 - KinshasaPolandHonduras
51,18138,3586,198
52,78238,3446,367
54,45338,3396,535
56,17038,3206,698
57,86038,2836,863
59,59938,2687,028
61,47438,2497,194
63,47938,2207,359
65,59038,2047,522
67,80038,2047,682
70,11438,5727,839
72,55038,6067,991
75,13838,6158,141
77,79238,6238,288
80,53438,5918,429
83,36838,5738,546
86,22938,5448,661
89,19338,5168,770
92,20938,5118,878
95,23238,5029,002
98,32038,4759,154
101,49938,4439,304
104,76738,2509,448
108,17137,9149,590

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