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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 CyprusPolandAlbania
81838,3583,085
82638,3443,065
83538,3393,047
84538,3203,038
85538,2833,026
86738,2683,014
87938,2492,998
89438,2202,979
91338,2042,957
93738,2042,934
96238,5722,915
98838,6062,900
1,01338,6152,892
1,02938,6232,888
1,02638,5912,882
1,01538,5732,876
1,00938,5442,868
1,01438,5162,863
1,02338,5112,861
1,03638,5022,854
1,05038,4752,842
1,06238,4432,825
1,07238,2502,799
1,08737,9142,787

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 Cyprus, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.