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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	St. Lucia	Moldova	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	152	4,244	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	153	4,199	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	154	4,154	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	155	4,108	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	156	4,059	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	157	4,013	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	157	3,966	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	158	3,919	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	159	3,873	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	160	3,829	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	160	3,788	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	161	3,748	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	162	3,709	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	162	3,671	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	163	3,633	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	163	3,595	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	164	3,558	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	164	3,522	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	165	3,485	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	166	3,448	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	166	3,412	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	167	3,376	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	167	3,339	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	167	3,570	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 St. Lucia, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.