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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Belarus
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	10,064
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	10,034
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	10,000
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	9,955
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	9,905
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	9,856
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	9,807
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	9,764
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	9,734
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	9,713
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	9,697
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	9,681
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	9,662
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	9,643
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	9,624
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	9,605
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	9,585
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	9,564
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	9,542
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	9,519
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	9,495
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	9,469
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	9,442
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	9,400

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 Belarus; the database as a whole is cited above.