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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Madagascar	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	15,259	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	15,707	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	16,162	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	16,631	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	17,114	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	17,610	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	18,120	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	18,641	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	19,173	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	19,717	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	20,272	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	20,837	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	21,413	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	21,999	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	22,593	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	23,196	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	23,806	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	24,423	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	25,044	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	25,671	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	26,302	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	26,936	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	27,573	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	28,237	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 Madagascar; the database as a whole is cited above.