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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 - KinshasaPolandHaiti
51,18138,3588,121
52,78238,3448,279
54,45338,3398,430
56,17038,3208,580
57,86038,2838,739
59,59938,2688,900
61,47438,2499,061
63,47938,2209,216
65,59038,2049,364
67,80038,2049,508
70,11438,5729,652
72,55038,6069,553
75,13838,6159,670
77,79238,6239,793
80,53438,5919,922
83,36838,57310,047
86,22938,54410,254
89,19338,51610,486
92,20938,51110,647
95,23238,50210,788
98,32038,47510,933
101,49938,44311,077
104,76738,25011,215
108,17137,91411,349

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