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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Dominica	Congo - Kinshasa	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	277	70	51,181	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	281	71	52,782	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	285	71	54,453	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	288	72	56,170	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	289	72	57,860	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	293	72	59,599	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	296	72	61,474	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	304	72	63,479	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	311	72	65,590	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	319	73	67,800	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	319	73	70,114	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	318	73	72,550	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	319	73	75,138	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	321	73	77,792	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	324	73	80,534	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	327	73	83,368	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	331	74	86,229	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	335	74	89,193	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	343	74	92,209	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	353	74	95,232	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	361	75	98,320	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	366	75	101,499	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	372	76	104,767	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	380	76	108,171	37,914

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.

All data sources

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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