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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United Kingdom	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	58,946	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	59,149	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	59,377	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	59,631	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	59,903	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	60,217	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	60,682	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	61,098	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	61,593	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	62,100	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	62,539	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	63,040	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	63,567	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	63,989	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	64,392	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	64,885	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	65,400	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	65,941	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	66,335	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	66,732	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	67,095	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	67,380	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	67,651	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	68,093	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

United Kingdom

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
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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,