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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Spain	Sudan	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	40,378	26,168	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	40,563	26,771	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	40,775	27,387	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	41,433	28,017	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	42,205	28,662	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	42,869	29,321	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	43,672	29,996	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	44,370	30,686	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	45,246	31,393	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	45,993	32,137	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	46,378	33,078	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	46,573	33,891	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	46,746	34,568	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	46,777	35,293	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	46,603	36,093	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	46,465	37,058	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	46,420	38,165	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	46,460	39,294	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	46,543	40,512	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	46,739	41,764	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	47,116	42,952	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	47,366	44,121	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	47,342	45,290	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	47,625	46,498	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

Spain

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

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 Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.