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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 Puerto RicoBosnia & HerzegovinaPoland
3,8003,81138,358
3,8113,90138,344
3,8193,91938,339
3,8243,92338,320
3,8263,94038,283
3,8273,97538,268
3,8223,99138,249
3,8053,99338,220
3,7833,99038,204
3,7613,98738,204
3,7413,98538,572
3,7223,98338,606
3,6793,98038,615
3,6363,97738,623
3,5893,97338,591
3,5343,96838,573
3,4733,96338,544
3,4113,95738,516
3,3523,95138,511
3,2953,94438,502
3,2683,93738,475
3,2473,92938,443
3,2323,92138,250
3,2283,87637,914

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

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 Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.