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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 Cape VerdeBurkina FasoPoland
42211,07538,358
43011,40538,344
43811,82838,339
44712,38038,320
45512,82938,283
46313,17838,268
47113,54038,249
47813,91738,220
48614,30938,204
49414,72238,204
50115,15238,572
50915,60038,606
51616,06438,615
52416,56338,623
53117,07238,591
53917,57538,573
54618,09438,544
55318,62138,516
56219,15738,511
56819,69838,502
57420,24238,475
58020,78838,443
58521,33638,250
59021,88937,914

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 Cape Verde, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.