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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 RepublicCongo - KinshasaHungary
8,17551,18110,244
8,30152,78210,218
8,42754,45310,194
8,55356,17010,165
8,67857,86010,136
8,80159,59910,114
8,92461,47410,094
9,04463,47910,078
9,16465,59010,062
9,28167,80010,045
9,39870,11410,029
9,51272,55010,007
9,62775,1389,978
9,74277,7929,927
9,85580,5349,900
9,96583,3689,873
10,07286,2299,850
10,17789,1939,821
10,28192,2099,794
10,38595,2329,782
10,48798,3209,778
10,587101,4999,757
10,686104,7679,716
10,793108,1719,690

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

Hungary

  • 1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
  • 1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
  • 1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

No separate list is published for Dominican Republic, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.