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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 & PríncipeLaosPoland
1385,28638,358
1415,39738,344
1445,49938,339
1475,57838,320
1515,65438,283
1545,74638,268
1585,83638,249
1615,93138,220
1656,03538,204
1686,14538,204
1726,25738,572
1766,36838,606
1806,47738,615
1836,58638,623
1876,69538,591
1906,80438,573
1946,91238,544
1987,01938,516
2017,12738,511
2047,23438,502
2087,34338,475
2127,45238,443
2167,56038,250
2207,66637,914

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