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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Germany	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	433	81,439	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	438	81,474	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	443	81,534	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	448	81,595	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	454	81,566	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	460	81,473	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	467	81,354	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	474	81,190	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	482	81,009	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	491	80,781	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	500	80,500	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	509	80,301	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	521	80,292	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	533	80,443	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	547	80,663	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	560	81,000	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	571	81,704	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	586	82,366	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	599	82,674	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	610	82,923	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	623	83,110	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	633	83,178	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	643	83,213	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	651	83,811	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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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; the database as a whole is cited above.