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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 TunisiaPolandTrinidad & Tobago
9,41738,3581,301
9,51438,3441,303
9,61338,3391,308
9,71138,3201,314
9,81038,2831,320
9,90638,2681,326
9,99738,2491,332
10,08738,2201,338
10,17838,2041,344
10,27438,2041,352
10,37738,5721,359
10,49138,6061,365
10,61238,6151,372
10,73738,6231,379
10,86638,5911,386
10,99638,5731,392
11,12438,5441,399
11,24838,5161,405
11,36538,5111,411
11,47738,5021,436
11,58338,4751,452
11,68138,4431,448
11,77238,2501,450
11,86237,9141,456

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, Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.