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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 PolandAlbaniaLuxembourg
38,3583,085433
38,3443,065438
38,3393,047443
38,3203,038448
38,2833,026454
38,2683,014460
38,2492,998467
38,2202,979474
38,2042,957482
38,2042,934491
38,5722,915500
38,6062,900509
38,6152,892521
38,6232,888533
38,5912,882547
38,5732,876560
38,5442,868571
38,5162,863586
38,5112,861599
38,5022,854610
38,4752,842623
38,4432,825633
38,2502,799643
37,9142,787651

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