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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 LuxembourgBurkina FasoPoland
43311,07538,358
43811,40538,344
44311,82838,339
44812,38038,320
45412,82938,283
46013,17838,268
46713,54038,249
47413,91738,220
48214,30938,204
49114,72238,204
50015,15238,572
50915,60038,606
52116,06438,615
53316,56338,623
54717,07238,591
56017,57538,573
57118,09438,544
58618,62138,516
59919,15738,511
61019,69838,502
62320,24238,475
63320,78838,443
64321,33638,250
65121,88937,914

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.

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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 Luxembourg, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.