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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 PolandHong Kong SAR China
38,3586,587
38,3446,646
38,3396,695
38,3206,725
38,2836,712
38,2686,765
38,2496,794
38,2206,838
38,2046,897
38,2046,938
38,5726,953
38,6067,004
38,6157,052
38,6237,130
38,5917,159
38,5737,209
38,5447,271
38,5167,316
38,5117,372
38,5027,432
38,4757,487
38,4437,460
38,2507,392
37,9147,387

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 Hong Kong SAR China; the database as a whole is cited above.