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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 TunisiaPolandSão Tomé & Príncipe
9,41738,358138
9,51438,344141
9,61338,339144
9,71138,320147
9,81038,283151
9,90638,268154
9,99738,249158
10,08738,220161
10,17838,204165
10,27438,204168
10,37738,572172
10,49138,606176
10,61238,615180
10,73738,623183
10,86638,591187
10,99638,573190
11,12438,544194
11,24838,516198
11,36538,511201
11,47738,502204
11,58338,475208
11,68138,443212
11,77238,250216
11,86237,914220

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, São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.