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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 TunisiaPolandSt. Lucia
9,41738,358152
9,51438,344153
9,61338,339154
9,71138,320155
9,81038,283156
9,90638,268157
9,99738,249157
10,08738,220158
10,17838,204159
10,27438,204160
10,37738,572160
10,49138,606161
10,61238,615162
10,73738,623162
10,86638,591163
10,99638,573163
11,12438,544164
11,24838,516164
11,36538,511165
11,47738,502166
11,58338,475166
11,68138,443167
11,77238,250167
11,86237,914167

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, St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.