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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Italy	Poland	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	56,940	38,358	152
Dec 31, 2000	56,966	38,344	153
Dec 31, 2001	57,004	38,339	154
Dec 31, 2002	57,114	38,320	155
Dec 31, 2003	57,423	38,283	156
Dec 31, 2004	57,852	38,268	157
Dec 31, 2005	58,191	38,249	157
Dec 31, 2006	58,424	38,220	158
Dec 31, 2007	58,781	38,204	159
Dec 31, 2008	59,236	38,204	160
Dec 31, 2009	59,580	38,572	160
Dec 31, 2010	59,844	38,606	161
Dec 31, 2011	60,052	38,615	162
Dec 31, 2012	60,216	38,623	162
Dec 31, 2013	60,337	38,591	163
Dec 31, 2014	60,346	38,573	163
Dec 31, 2015	60,255	38,544	164
Dec 31, 2016	60,140	38,516	164
Dec 31, 2017	60,027	38,511	165
Dec 31, 2018	59,902	38,502	166
Dec 31, 2019	59,754	38,475	166
Dec 31, 2020	59,464	38,443	167
Dec 31, 2021	59,158	38,250	167
Dec 31, 2022	58,966	37,914	167

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,

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