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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Italy	Poland	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	56,940	38,358	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	56,966	38,344	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	57,004	38,339	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	57,114	38,320	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	57,423	38,283	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	57,852	38,268	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	58,191	38,249	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	58,424	38,220	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	58,781	38,204	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	59,236	38,204	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	59,580	38,572	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	59,844	38,606	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	60,052	38,615	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	60,216	38,623	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	60,337	38,591	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	60,346	38,573	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	60,255	38,544	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	60,140	38,516	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	60,027	38,511	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	59,902	38,502	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	59,754	38,475	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	59,464	38,443	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	59,158	38,250	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	58,966	37,914	3,876

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

Italy

1451-1861: Chilosi, D., & Ciccarelli, C. (2023). Italy in the Great Divergence: What Can We Learn from Engel’s Law (SSRN Scholarly Paper 4514091).
1861-1871 (North Italy): Malanima, P. (2010), “The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300–1913” European Review of Economic History 15 (2): 169–219.
1871-1990: Baffigi, A. (2011).”Italian National Accounts, 1861-2011”, Banca d’Italia Economic History Working Papers 18.

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,

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project