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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 QatarPolandBosnia & Herzegovina
62738,3583,811
65938,3443,901
69138,3393,919
72438,3203,923
75738,2833,940
85038,2683,975
1,00138,2493,991
1,15338,2203,993
1,30638,2043,990
1,46038,2043,987
1,61538,5723,985
1,77038,6063,983
1,90438,6153,980
2,01038,6233,977
2,10338,5913,973
2,18738,5733,968
2,26138,5443,963
2,32638,5163,957
2,38438,5113,951
2,43538,5023,944
2,48038,4753,937
2,51938,4433,929
2,55338,2503,921
2,55937,9143,876

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 Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.