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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 NepalAlbaniaPoland
23,0873,08538,358
23,4873,06538,344
23,8873,04738,339
24,2733,03838,320
24,6453,02638,283
24,9893,01438,268
25,2552,99838,249
25,4842,97938,220
25,7322,95738,204
25,9982,93438,204
26,2982,91538,572
26,6642,90038,606
27,0812,89238,615
27,5052,88838,623
27,9172,88238,591
28,3112,87638,573
28,6782,86838,544
29,0342,86338,516
29,3842,86138,511
29,7182,85438,502
30,0572,84238,475
30,5952,82538,443
31,3112,79938,250
31,8452,78737,914

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 Nepal, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.