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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	Serbia	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	7,611	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	7,587	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	7,574	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	7,570	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	7,551	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	7,533	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	7,510	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	7,481	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	7,451	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	7,419	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	7,389	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	7,360	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	7,304	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	7,269	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	7,234	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	7,199	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	7,162	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	7,124	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	7,087	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	7,048	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	7,010	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	6,964	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	6,898	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	6,833	37,914

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

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

Serbia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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,