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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Poland	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	70	38,358	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	71	38,344	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	71	38,339	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	72	38,320	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	72	38,283	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	72	38,268	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	72	38,249	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	72	38,220	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	72	38,204	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	73	38,204	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	73	38,572	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	73	38,606	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	73	38,615	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	73	38,623	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	73	38,591	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	73	38,573	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	74	38,544	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	74	38,516	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	74	38,511	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	74	38,502	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	75	38,475	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	75	38,443	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	76	38,250	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	76	37,914	51,731

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,

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

No separate list is published for Dominica; the database as a whole is cited above.