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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 PolandBangladesh
38,358132,907
38,344135,207
38,339137,420
38,320139,573
38,283141,650
38,268143,644
38,249145,546
38,220147,376
38,204149,047
38,204150,562
38,572152,189
38,606153,927
38,615155,634
38,623157,326
38,591158,999
38,573160,650
38,544162,273
38,516163,938
38,511165,655
38,502167,358
38,475169,045
38,443170,709
38,250172,354
37,914174,217

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,

Bangladesh

  • 1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995