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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date MaltaPolandYemen
38738,35816,728
39038,34417,236
39338,33917,762
39638,32018,310
39838,28318,855
40138,26819,410
40438,24920,000
40538,22020,611
40638,20421,236
40938,20421,878
41238,57222,533
41438,60623,195
41638,61523,880
42038,62324,594
42638,59125,311
43538,57326,020
44538,54426,698
45538,51627,347
46838,51127,985
48538,50228,608
50438,47529,216
51638,44329,811
51838,25030,399
53037,91431,058

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, Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.