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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Burkina Faso	Senegal
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	11,075	10,070
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	11,405	10,305
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	11,828	10,576
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	12,380	10,864
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	12,829	11,172
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	13,178	11,498
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	13,540	11,839
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	13,917	12,204
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	14,309	12,584
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	14,722	12,978
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	15,152	13,382
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	15,600	13,794
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	16,064	14,226
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	16,563	14,668
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	17,072	15,121
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	17,575	15,589
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	18,094	16,066
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	18,621	16,549
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	19,157	17,044
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	19,698	17,535
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	20,242	18,021
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	20,788	18,518
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	21,336	19,016
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	21,889	19,512

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