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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 TunisiaPolandLuxembourg
9,41738,358433
9,51438,344438
9,61338,339443
9,71138,320448
9,81038,283454
9,90638,268460
9,99738,249467
10,08738,220474
10,17838,204482
10,27438,204491
10,37738,572500
10,49138,606509
10,61238,615521
10,73738,623533
10,86638,591547
10,99638,573560
11,12438,544571
11,24838,516586
11,36538,511599
11,47738,502610
11,58338,475623
11,68138,443633
11,77238,250643
11,86237,914651

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