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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Poland	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	70	38,358	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	71	38,344	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	71	38,339	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	72	38,320	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	72	38,283	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	72	38,268	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	72	38,249	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	72	38,220	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	72	38,204	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	73	38,204	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	73	38,572	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	73	38,606	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	73	38,615	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	73	38,623	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	73	38,591	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	73	38,573	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	74	38,544	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	74	38,516	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	74	38,511	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	74	38,502	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	75	38,475	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	75	38,443	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	76	38,250	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	76	37,914	19,266

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,

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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