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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Paraguay	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	70	5,366	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	71	5,473	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	71	5,579	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	72	5,683	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	72	5,786	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	72	5,886	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	72	5,984	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	72	6,080	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	72	6,173	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	73	6,264	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	73	6,352	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	73	6,438	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	73	6,522	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	73	6,605	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	73	6,688	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	73	6,769	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	74	6,850	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	74	6,930	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	74	7,012	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	74	7,095	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	75	7,179	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	75	7,263	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	76	7,348	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	76	7,432	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, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.