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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Albania	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	433	3,085	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	438	3,065	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	443	3,047	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	448	3,038	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	454	3,026	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	460	3,014	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	467	2,998	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	474	2,979	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	482	2,957	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	491	2,934	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	500	2,915	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	509	2,900	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	521	2,892	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	533	2,888	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	547	2,882	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	560	2,876	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	571	2,868	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	586	2,863	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	599	2,861	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	610	2,854	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	623	2,842	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	633	2,825	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	643	2,799	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	651	2,787	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 Luxembourg, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.