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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 ChadBurkina FasoPoland
7,55911,07538,358
7,82111,40538,344
8,09211,82838,339
8,39512,38038,320
8,76312,82938,283
9,19113,17838,268
9,59413,54038,249
9,96713,91738,220
10,33814,30938,204
10,72814,72238,204
11,13915,15238,572
11,55015,60038,606
11,98316,06438,615
12,42716,56338,623
12,89517,07238,591
13,37917,57538,573
13,82318,09438,544
14,27718,62138,516
14,76519,15738,511
15,25219,69838,502
15,75020,24238,475
16,25720,78838,443
16,77621,33638,250
17,30721,88937,914

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 Chad, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.