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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date SudanPolandCongo - Kinshasa
26,16838,35851,181
26,77138,34452,782
27,38738,33954,453
28,01738,32056,170
28,66238,28357,860
29,32138,26859,599
29,99638,24961,474
30,68638,22063,479
31,39338,20465,590
32,13738,20467,800
33,07838,57270,114
33,89138,60672,550
34,56838,61575,138
35,29338,62377,792
36,09338,59180,534
37,05838,57383,368
38,16538,54486,229
39,29438,51689,193
40,51238,51192,209
41,76438,50295,232
42,95238,47598,320
44,12138,443101,499
45,29038,250104,767
46,49837,914108,171

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 Sudan, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.