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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date PolandMaltaCongo - Kinshasa
38,35838751,181
38,34439052,782
38,33939354,453
38,32039656,170
38,28339857,860
38,26840159,599
38,24940461,474
38,22040563,479
38,20440665,590
38,20440967,800
38,57241270,114
38,60641472,550
38,61541675,138
38,62342077,792
38,59142680,534
38,57343583,368
38,54444586,229
38,51645589,193
38,51146892,209
38,50248595,232
38,47550498,320
38,443516101,499
38,250518104,767
37,914530108,171

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