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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 TunisiaCongo - KinshasaPoland
9,41751,18138,358
9,51452,78238,344
9,61354,45338,339
9,71156,17038,320
9,81057,86038,283
9,90659,59938,268
9,99761,47438,249
10,08763,47938,220
10,17865,59038,204
10,27467,80038,204
10,37770,11438,572
10,49172,55038,606
10,61275,13838,615
10,73777,79238,623
10,86680,53438,591
10,99683,36838,573
11,12486,22938,544
11,24889,19338,516
11,36592,20938,511
11,47795,23238,502
11,58398,32038,475
11,681101,49938,443
11,772104,76738,250
11,862108,17137,914

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

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