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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 HungaryOmanCongo - Kinshasa
10,2442,34851,181
10,2182,40352,782
10,1942,45754,453
10,1652,51056,170
10,1362,56257,860
10,1142,61359,599
10,0942,66361,474
10,0782,71363,479
10,0622,76465,590
10,0452,81667,800
10,0292,87170,114
10,0072,92872,550
9,9782,98675,138
9,9273,04777,792
9,9003,11080,534
9,8733,17483,368
9,8503,24086,229
9,8213,30789,193
9,7943,37592,209
9,7823,44495,232
9,7783,51298,320
9,7573,582101,499
9,7163,651104,767
9,6903,696108,171

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

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