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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 DenmarkPolandBosnia & Herzegovina
5,32238,3583,811
5,33938,3443,901
5,35838,3393,919
5,37738,3203,923
5,39138,2833,940
5,40438,2683,975
5,42038,2493,991
5,43838,2203,993
5,46138,2043,990
5,49438,2043,987
5,52438,5723,985
5,54838,6063,983
5,57138,6153,980
5,59238,6233,977
5,61438,5913,973
5,64438,5733,968
5,68338,5443,963
5,73038,5163,957
5,76638,5113,951
5,79538,5023,944
5,81838,4753,937
5,83138,4433,929
5,85538,2503,921
5,90737,9143,876

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,

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.