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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Afghanistan	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	70	22,206	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	71	22,461	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	71	22,507	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	72	23,600	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	72	25,005	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	72	25,698	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	72	26,335	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	72	27,154	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	72	27,387	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	73	27,706	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	73	28,484	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	73	29,121	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	73	29,758	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	73	30,420	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	73	31,108	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	73	31,823	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	74	32,564	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	74	33,332	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	74	34,125	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	74	34,941	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	75	35,972	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	75	37,034	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	76	38,127	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	76	39,252	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

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 Dominica, Afghanistan; the database as a whole is cited above.