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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 - KinshasaPolandTrinidad & Tobago
51,18138,3581,301
52,78238,3441,303
54,45338,3391,308
56,17038,3201,314
57,86038,2831,320
59,59938,2681,326
61,47438,2491,332
63,47938,2201,338
65,59038,2041,344
67,80038,2041,352
70,11438,5721,359
72,55038,6061,365
75,13838,6151,372
77,79238,6231,379
80,53438,5911,386
83,36838,5731,392
86,22938,5441,399
89,19338,5161,405
92,20938,5111,411
95,23238,5021,436
98,32038,4751,452
101,49938,4431,448
104,76738,2501,450
108,17137,9141,456

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, Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.