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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date DominicaAlbaniaOmanPoland
703,0852,34838,358
713,0652,40338,344
713,0472,45738,339
723,0382,51038,320
723,0262,56238,283
723,0142,61338,268
722,9982,66338,249
722,9792,71338,220
722,9572,76438,204
732,9342,81638,204
732,9152,87138,572
732,9002,92838,606
732,8922,98638,615
732,8883,04738,623
732,8823,11038,591
732,8763,17438,573
742,8683,24038,544
742,8633,30738,516
742,8613,37538,511
742,8543,44438,502
752,8423,51238,475
752,8253,58238,443
762,7993,65138,250
762,7873,69637,914

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.

All data sources

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