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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Poland	Lithuania
Dec 31, 1999	387	38,358	3,419
Dec 31, 2000	390	38,344	3,395
Dec 31, 2001	393	38,339	3,367
Dec 31, 2002	396	38,320	3,340
Dec 31, 2003	398	38,283	3,313
Dec 31, 2004	401	38,268	3,276
Dec 31, 2005	404	38,249	3,223
Dec 31, 2006	405	38,220	3,172
Dec 31, 2007	406	38,204	3,134
Dec 31, 2008	409	38,204	3,102
Dec 31, 2009	412	38,572	3,068
Dec 31, 2010	414	38,606	3,004
Dec 31, 2011	416	38,615	2,937
Dec 31, 2012	420	38,623	2,898
Dec 31, 2013	426	38,591	2,869
Dec 31, 2014	435	38,573	2,844
Dec 31, 2015	445	38,544	2,818
Dec 31, 2016	455	38,516	2,782
Dec 31, 2017	468	38,511	2,744
Dec 31, 2018	485	38,502	2,718
Dec 31, 2019	504	38,475	2,710
Dec 31, 2020	516	38,443	2,711
Dec 31, 2021	518	38,250	2,724
Dec 31, 2022	530	37,914	2,748

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, Lithuania; the database as a whole is cited above.