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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Oman	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	387	2,348	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	390	2,403	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	393	2,457	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	396	2,510	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	398	2,562	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	401	2,613	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	404	2,663	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	405	2,713	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	406	2,764	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	409	2,816	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	412	2,871	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	414	2,928	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	416	2,986	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	420	3,047	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	426	3,110	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	435	3,174	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	445	3,240	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	455	3,307	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	468	3,375	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	485	3,444	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	504	3,512	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	516	3,582	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	518	3,651	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	530	3,696	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 Malta, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.