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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 DominicaIcelandCongo - KinshasaPoland
7027751,18138,358
7128152,78238,344
7128554,45338,339
7228856,17038,320
7228957,86038,283
7229359,59938,268
7229661,47438,249
7230463,47938,220
7231165,59038,204
7331967,80038,204
7331970,11438,572
7331872,55038,606
7331975,13838,615
7332177,79238,623
7332480,53438,591
7332783,36838,573
7433186,22938,544
7433589,19338,516
7434392,20938,511
7435395,23238,502
7536198,32038,475
75366101,49938,443
76372104,76738,250
76380108,17137,914

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

Iceland

  • 1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.