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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Burkina Faso	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	11,075	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	11,405	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	11,828	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	12,380	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	12,829	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	13,178	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	13,540	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	13,917	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	14,309	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	14,722	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	15,152	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	15,600	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	16,064	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	16,563	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	17,072	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	17,575	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	18,094	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	18,621	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	19,157	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	19,698	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	20,242	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	20,788	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	21,336	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	21,889	31,058

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