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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 SudanPolandMalta
26,16838,358387
26,77138,344390
27,38738,339393
28,01738,320396
28,66238,283398
29,32138,268401
29,99638,249404
30,68638,220405
31,39338,204406
32,13738,204409
33,07838,572412
33,89138,606414
34,56838,615416
35,29338,623420
36,09338,591426
37,05838,573435
38,16538,544445
39,29438,516455
40,51238,511468
41,76438,502485
42,95238,475504
44,12138,443516
45,29038,250518
46,49837,914530

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, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.