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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Australia
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	18,692
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	18,907
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	19,151
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	19,371
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	19,595
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	19,805
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	20,048
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	20,320
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	20,694
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	21,113
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	21,553
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	21,891
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	22,197
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	22,588
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	22,980
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	23,326
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	23,664
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	24,036
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	24,445
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	24,823
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	25,204
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	25,529
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	25,574
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	25,826

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,

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.