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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 - KinshasaPolandLibya
51,18138,3584,993
52,78238,3445,116
54,45338,3395,237
56,17038,3205,357
57,86038,2835,476
59,59938,2685,595
61,47438,2495,715
63,47938,2205,835
65,59038,2045,967
67,80038,2046,115
70,11438,5726,270
72,55038,6066,432
75,13838,6156,144
77,79238,6235,849
80,53438,5916,010
83,36838,5736,163
86,22938,5446,291
89,19338,5166,415
92,20938,5116,549
95,23238,5026,689
98,32038,4756,826
101,49938,4436,960
104,76738,2507,088
108,17137,9147,169

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