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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 São Tomé & PríncipeDenmarkPoland
1385,32238,358
1415,33938,344
1445,35838,339
1475,37738,320
1515,39138,283
1545,40438,268
1585,42038,249
1615,43838,220
1655,46138,204
1685,49438,204
1725,52438,572
1765,54838,606
1805,57138,615
1835,59238,623
1875,61438,591
1905,64438,573
1945,68338,544
1985,73038,516
2015,76638,511
2045,79538,502
2085,81838,475
2125,83138,443
2165,85538,250
2205,90737,914

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

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 São Tomé & Príncipe, Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.