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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	3,811	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	3,901	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	3,919	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	3,923	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	3,940	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	3,975	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	3,991	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	3,993	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	3,990	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	3,987	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	3,985	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	3,983	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	3,980	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	3,977	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	3,973	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	3,968	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	3,963	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	3,957	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	3,951	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	3,944	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	3,937	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	3,929	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	3,921	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	3,876	19,266

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,

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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.