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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Burkina Faso	Afghanistan
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	11,075	22,206
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	11,405	22,461
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	11,828	22,507
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	12,380	23,600
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	12,829	25,005
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	13,178	25,698
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	13,540	26,335
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	13,917	27,154
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	14,309	27,387
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	14,722	27,706
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	15,152	28,484
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	15,600	29,121
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	16,064	29,758
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	16,563	30,420
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	17,072	31,108
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	17,575	31,823
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	18,094	32,564
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	18,621	33,332
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	19,157	34,125
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	19,698	34,941
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	20,242	35,972
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	20,788	37,034
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	21,336	38,127
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	21,889	39,252

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 Burkina Faso, Afghanistan; the database as a whole is cited above.