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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 Dominican RepublicPolandCongo - Kinshasa
8,17538,35851,181
8,30138,34452,782
8,42738,33954,453
8,55338,32056,170
8,67838,28357,860
8,80138,26859,599
8,92438,24961,474
9,04438,22063,479
9,16438,20465,590
9,28138,20467,800
9,39838,57270,114
9,51238,60672,550
9,62738,61575,138
9,74238,62377,792
9,85538,59180,534
9,96538,57383,368
10,07238,54486,229
10,17738,51689,193
10,28138,51192,209
10,38538,50295,232
10,48738,47598,320
10,58738,443101,499
10,68638,250104,767
10,79337,914108,171

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,

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