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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 ZambiaPolandComoros
10,32738,358531
10,64938,344545
10,98038,339559
11,29038,320574
11,59338,283590
11,90738,268606
12,24338,249623
12,61238,220640
13,00538,204657
13,41238,204674
13,82238,572690
14,25538,606706
14,70938,615722
15,16538,623737
15,63138,591752
16,12138,573767
16,62438,544781
17,14038,516795
17,67438,511808
18,22238,502821
18,78038,475837
19,34938,443853
19,92838,250869
20,48537,914885

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

Zambia

  • 1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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 Comoros; the database as a whole is cited above.