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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date DominicaPolandSaudi Arabia
7038,35819,964
7138,34420,426
7138,33920,956
7238,32021,549
7238,28322,189
7238,26822,850
7238,24923,516
7238,22024,178
7238,20424,841
7338,20425,518
7338,57226,227
7338,60627,068
7338,61527,810
7338,62328,516
7338,59129,220
7338,57329,936
7438,54430,646
7438,51631,360
7438,51132,184
7438,50232,869
7538,47533,661
7538,44334,542
7638,25033,651
7637,91434,081

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,

Saudi Arabia

  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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