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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Poland	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	433	38,358	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	438	38,344	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	443	38,339	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	448	38,320	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	454	38,283	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	460	38,268	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	467	38,249	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	474	38,220	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	482	38,204	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	491	38,204	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	500	38,572	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	509	38,606	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	521	38,615	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	533	38,623	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	547	38,591	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	560	38,573	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	571	38,544	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	586	38,516	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	599	38,511	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	610	38,502	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	623	38,475	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	633	38,443	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	643	38,250	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	651	37,914	2,787

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.