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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 PolandCongo - KinshasaParaguay
38,35851,1815,366
38,34452,7825,473
38,33954,4535,579
38,32056,1705,683
38,28357,8605,786
38,26859,5995,886
38,24961,4745,984
38,22063,4796,080
38,20465,5906,173
38,20467,8006,264
38,57270,1146,352
38,60672,5506,438
38,61575,1386,522
38,62377,7926,605
38,59180,5346,688
38,57383,3686,769
38,54486,2296,850
38,51689,1936,930
38,51192,2097,012
38,50295,2327,095
38,47598,3207,179
38,443101,4997,263
38,250104,7677,348
37,914108,1717,432

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.