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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 QatarBosnia & HerzegovinaPoland
6273,81138,358
6593,90138,344
6913,91938,339
7243,92338,320
7573,94038,283
8503,97538,268
1,0013,99138,249
1,1533,99338,220
1,3063,99038,204
1,4603,98738,204
1,6153,98538,572
1,7703,98338,606
1,9043,98038,615
2,0103,97738,623
2,1033,97338,591
2,1873,96838,573
2,2613,96338,544
2,3263,95738,516
2,3843,95138,511
2,4353,94438,502
2,4803,93738,475
2,5193,92938,443
2,5533,92138,250
2,5593,87637,914

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 Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.