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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 SloveniaCongo - KinshasaPoland
1,99851,18138,358
2,00452,78238,344
2,00654,45338,339
2,00956,17038,320
2,01057,86038,283
2,01159,59938,268
2,01561,47438,249
2,02263,47938,220
2,03365,59038,204
2,03667,80038,204
2,05670,11438,572
2,06372,55038,606
2,06775,13838,615
2,07177,79238,623
2,07480,53438,591
2,07683,36838,573
2,07886,22938,544
2,07989,19338,516
2,08192,20938,511
2,08795,23238,502
2,10498,32038,475
2,118101,49938,443
2,123104,76738,250
2,124108,17137,914

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

Slovenia

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