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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 PolandOmanBosnia & Herzegovina
38,3582,3483,811
38,3442,4033,901
38,3392,4573,919
38,3202,5103,923
38,2832,5623,940
38,2682,6133,975
38,2492,6633,991
38,2202,7133,993
38,2042,7643,990
38,2042,8163,987
38,5722,8713,985
38,6062,9283,983
38,6152,9863,980
38,6233,0473,977
38,5913,1103,973
38,5733,1743,968
38,5443,2403,963
38,5163,3073,957
38,5113,3753,951
38,5023,4443,944
38,4753,5123,937
38,4433,5823,929
38,2503,6513,921
37,9143,6963,876

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,

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.