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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Central African RepublicSão Tomé & PríncipePoland
3,88913838,358
3,98014138,344
4,05414438,339
4,12814738,320
4,21515138,283
4,28915438,268
4,36315838,249
4,44916138,220
4,54416538,204
4,64116838,204
4,74217238,572
4,84517638,606
4,95018038,615
5,05718338,623
5,16718738,591
5,27819038,573
5,39219438,544
5,50719838,516
5,62520138,511
5,74520438,502
5,87420838,475
6,02521238,443
6,15421638,250
6,29122037,914

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 Central African Republic, São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.