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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 RepublicPolandMalta
8,17538,358387
8,30138,344390
8,42738,339393
8,55338,320396
8,67838,283398
8,80138,268401
8,92438,249404
9,04438,220405
9,16438,204406
9,28138,204409
9,39838,572412
9,51238,606414
9,62738,615416
9,74238,623420
9,85538,591426
9,96538,573435
10,07238,544445
10,17738,516455
10,28138,511468
10,38538,502485
10,48738,475504
10,58738,443516
10,68638,250518
10,79337,914530

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, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.