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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 Dominican RepublicBosnia & HerzegovinaPoland
8,1753,81138,358
8,3013,90138,344
8,4273,91938,339
8,5533,92338,320
8,6783,94038,283
8,8013,97538,268
8,9243,99138,249
9,0443,99338,220
9,1643,99038,204
9,2813,98738,204
9,3983,98538,572
9,5123,98338,606
9,6273,98038,615
9,7423,97738,623
9,8553,97338,591
9,9653,96838,573
10,0723,96338,544
10,1773,95738,516
10,2813,95138,511
10,3853,94438,502
10,4873,93738,475
10,5873,92938,443
10,6863,92138,250
10,7933,87637,914

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.

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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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

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 Dominican Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.