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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 DominicaAlbaniaIndia
703,0851,000,965
713,0651,018,667
713,0471,036,256
723,0381,053,663
723,0261,070,882
723,0141,087,941
722,9981,104,803
722,9791,121,354
722,9571,137,576
732,9341,153,547
732,9151,169,239
732,9001,184,638
732,8921,199,810
732,8881,214,839
732,8821,229,765
732,8761,244,577
742,8681,259,236
742,8631,273,693
742,8611,287,902
742,8541,301,821
752,8421,315,530
752,8251,329,062
762,7991,339,912
762,7871,349,060

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

India

  • 1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
  • 1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
  • 1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
  • 1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

No separate list is published for Dominica, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.