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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Netherlands	Romania	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	15,817	22,414	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	15,932	22,262	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	16,052	22,106	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	16,155	21,931	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	16,231	21,828	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	16,288	21,704	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	16,326	21,571	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	16,352	21,443	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	16,388	21,129	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	16,452	20,779	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	16,536	20,607	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	16,621	20,485	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	16,699	20,385	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	16,761	20,296	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	16,810	20,224	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	16,871	20,151	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	16,946	20,055	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	17,036	19,938	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	17,137	19,823	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	17,238	19,713	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	17,351	19,622	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	17,448	19,496	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	17,539	19,351	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	17,709	19,266	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

Netherlands

1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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,