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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 PolandOmanSierra Leone
38,3582,3483,736
38,3442,4033,809
38,3392,4574,043
38,3202,5104,287
38,2832,5624,466
38,2682,6134,602
38,2492,6634,708
38,2202,7134,818
38,2042,7644,918
38,2042,8165,023
38,5722,8715,132
38,6062,9285,246
38,6152,9865,364
38,6233,0475,486
38,5913,1105,613
38,5733,1745,744
38,5443,2405,879
38,5163,3076,019
38,5113,3756,163
38,5023,4446,312
38,4753,5126,461
38,4433,5826,611
38,2503,6516,761
37,9143,6966,910

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