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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 HungaryCongo - KinshasaAlbania
10,24451,1813,085
10,21852,7823,065
10,19454,4533,047
10,16556,1703,038
10,13657,8603,026
10,11459,5993,014
10,09461,4742,998
10,07863,4792,979
10,06265,5902,957
10,04567,8002,934
10,02970,1142,915
10,00772,5502,900
9,97875,1382,892
9,92777,7922,888
9,90080,5342,882
9,87383,3682,876
9,85086,2292,868
9,82189,1932,863
9,79492,2092,861
9,78295,2322,854
9,77898,3202,842
9,757101,4992,825
9,716104,7672,799
9,690108,1712,787

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.