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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 CameroonOmanHungary
15,4832,34810,244
15,9132,40310,218
16,3542,45710,194
16,8152,51010,165
17,2892,56210,136
17,7642,61310,114
18,2492,66310,094
18,7462,71310,078
19,2782,76410,062
19,8432,81610,045
20,4192,87110,029
21,0022,92810,007
21,5862,9869,978
22,1813,0479,927
22,8003,1109,900
23,5133,1749,873
24,2733,2409,850
24,9953,3079,821
25,6803,3759,794
26,3733,4449,782
27,1143,5129,778
27,8783,5829,757
28,6633,6519,716
29,4173,6969,690

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 Cameroon, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.