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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 RepublicTrinidad & TobagoPoland
3,8891,30138,358
3,9801,30338,344
4,0541,30838,339
4,1281,31438,320
4,2151,32038,283
4,2891,32638,268
4,3631,33238,249
4,4491,33838,220
4,5441,34438,204
4,6411,35238,204
4,7421,35938,572
4,8451,36538,606
4,9501,37238,615
5,0571,37938,623
5,1671,38638,591
5,2781,39238,573
5,3921,39938,544
5,5071,40538,516
5,6251,41138,511
5,7451,43638,502
5,8741,45238,475
6,0251,44838,443
6,1541,45038,250
6,2911,45637,914

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