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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 MaltaCentral African RepublicPoland
3873,88938,358
3903,98038,344
3934,05438,339
3964,12838,320
3984,21538,283
4014,28938,268
4044,36338,249
4054,44938,220
4064,54438,204
4094,64138,204
4124,74238,572
4144,84538,606
4164,95038,615
4205,05738,623
4265,16738,591
4355,27838,573
4455,39238,544
4555,50738,516
4685,62538,511
4855,74538,502
5045,87438,475
5166,02538,443
5186,15438,250
5306,29137,914

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 Malta, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.