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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 Central African RepublicHungaryCongo - Kinshasa
3,88910,24451,181
3,98010,21852,782
4,05410,19454,453
4,12810,16556,170
4,21510,13657,860
4,28910,11459,599
4,36310,09461,474
4,44910,07863,479
4,54410,06265,590
4,64110,04567,800
4,74210,02970,114
4,84510,00772,550
4,9509,97875,138
5,0579,92777,792
5,1679,90080,534
5,2789,87383,368
5,3929,85086,229
5,5079,82189,193
5,6259,79492,209
5,7459,78295,232
5,8749,77898,320
6,0259,757101,499
6,1549,716104,767
6,2919,690108,171

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 Central African Republic, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.