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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 - KinshasaSudanHungary
51,18126,16810,244
52,78226,77110,218
54,45327,38710,194
56,17028,01710,165
57,86028,66210,136
59,59929,32110,114
61,47429,99610,094
63,47930,68610,078
65,59031,39310,062
67,80032,13710,045
70,11433,07810,029
72,55033,89110,007
75,13834,5689,978
77,79235,2939,927
80,53436,0939,900
83,36837,0589,873
86,22938,1659,850
89,19339,2949,821
92,20940,5129,794
95,23241,7649,782
98,32042,9529,778
101,49944,1219,757
104,76745,2909,716
108,17146,4989,690

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

Hungary

  • 1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
  • 1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
  • 1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa, Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.