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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 ParaguayPolandBosnia & Herzegovina
5,36638,3583,811
5,47338,3443,901
5,57938,3393,919
5,68338,3203,923
5,78638,2833,940
5,88638,2683,975
5,98438,2493,991
6,08038,2203,993
6,17338,2043,990
6,26438,2043,987
6,35238,5723,985
6,43838,6063,983
6,52238,6153,980
6,60538,6233,977
6,68838,5913,973
6,76938,5733,968
6,85038,5443,963
6,93038,5163,957
7,01238,5113,951
7,09538,5023,944
7,17938,4753,937
7,26338,4433,929
7,34838,2503,921
7,43237,9143,876

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 Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.