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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 ChinaOman
38,3586,5872,348
38,3446,6462,403
38,3396,6952,457
38,3206,7252,510
38,2836,7122,562
38,2686,7652,613
38,2496,7942,663
38,2206,8382,713
38,2046,8972,764
38,2046,9382,816
38,5726,9532,871
38,6067,0042,928
38,6157,0522,986
38,6237,1303,047
38,5917,1593,110
38,5737,2093,174
38,5447,2713,240
38,5167,3163,307
38,5117,3723,375
38,5027,4323,444
38,4757,4873,512
38,4437,4603,582
38,2507,3923,651
37,9147,3873,696

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, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.