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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 IcelandPolandNorth Macedonia
27738,3582,006
28138,3442,017
28538,3392,026
28838,3202,011
28938,2832,018
29338,2682,024
29638,2492,028
30438,2202,031
31138,2042,035
31938,2042,038
31938,5722,042
31838,6062,046
31938,6152,049
32138,6232,052
32438,5912,055
32738,5732,058
33138,5442,061
33538,5162,063
34338,5112,065
35338,5022,067
36138,4752,068
36638,4432,065
37238,2502,057
38037,9142,048

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

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,

North Macedonia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project